Assessment of Holocene surface hydrological connections for the Ounianga lake catchment zone (Chad)

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 341, Issue 8-9, 2009, Pages 770-782

  Grenier, Christophe ^a   Paillou, Philippe ^b   Maugis, Pascal ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Chad; Climate; Holocene; Hydrology; Lake Yoa; Modeling; Ounianga

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CATCHMENT; HOLOCENE; HYDROGEOLOGY; LAKE LEVEL; PALEOHYDROLOGY; SOFTWARE; WATER BUDGET;

AFRICA; CENTRAL AFRICA; CHAD; LAKE YOA; OUNIANGA; SAHARA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TIBESTI MASSIF;

EID: 70350051865     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2009.03.004     Document Type: Article

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