Spatial, inter and intra-annual variability of the Upper Blue Nile Basin rainfall

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 23, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 3075-3082

  Abtew, Wossenu ^a   Melesse, Assefa M ^b   Dessalegne, Tibebe ^c  

^a SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BEM Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Blue Nile Basin; Rainfall frequency analysis; Rainfall spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL AVERAGE; ANNUAL RAINFALL; BLUE NILE; BLUE NILE BASIN; DRY AND WET; DRY SEASONS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; INTRA-ANNUAL VARIABILITY; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RAINFALL DATA; RAINFALL FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; RAINFALL SPATIAL ANALYSIS; RAINFALL STATISTICS; RETURN PERIODS; SPATIAL CHARACTERIZATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STANDARD DEVIATION; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WEIBULL; WET BASINS; WET SEASON;

DROUGHT; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

RAIN;

FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; RIVER BASIN; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

AFRICA; BLUE NILE [NILE RIVER]; EAST AFRICA; NILE RIVER; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 70350128547     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7419     Document Type: Article

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