Case study: Hydraulic modeling of runoff processes in Ghanaian inland valleys

Journal of Hydraulic Engineering

Volumn 135, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 539-553

  Unami, Koichi ^a   Kawachi, Toshihiko ^a   Kranjac Berisavljevic, Gordana ^b   Abagale, Felix Kofi ^b   Maeda, Shigeya ^a   Takeuchi, Junichiro ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Africa; Floods; Ghana; Hydraulic models; Runoff; Shallow water

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; COMPLEX TOPOGRAPHIES; COMPUTATIONAL DOMAINS; DAM-BREAK FLOW; DATA RECONSTRUCTION; FINITE VOLUME MODEL; FLOOD EVENT; FLUX SPLITTING; FOOD SECURITY; GHANA; HYDRAULIC MODELING; HYDROLOGIC PROCESS; MANNING'S ROUGHNESS COEFFICIENT; MODELING APPROACH; NORTHERN REGIONS; NUMERICAL MODELS; OBSERVED DATA; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; RAINFALL EVENT; RAINFALL INTENSITY; RAINY SEASONS; SCIENTIFIC STUDIES; SHALLOW WATER; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; STANDARD PROBLEMS; STUDY AREAS; STUDY SITES; SURFACE FLOW; SURFACE RUNOFFS; TIME-SERIES DATA; WEST AFRICA;

DAMS; FLOODS; LANDFORMS; RUNOFF; WATER LEVELS;

HYDRAULIC MODELS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLOOD; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RUNOFF; SHALLOW WATER; VALLEY;

AFRICA; GHANA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 67649215059     PISSN: 07339429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)HY.1943-7900.0000041     Document Type: Article

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