Models for recession flows in the upper Blue Nile River

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 2773-2786

  Mishra, A ^a   Hata, T ^a   Abdelhadi, A W ^b  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CORPORATION   (Sudan)

Author keywords

Blue Nile; Non linear reservoir; Recession; River; Storage outflow; Stream flow; Sudan

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GROUNDWATER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RESERVOIRS (WATER);

LINEAR RESERVOIRS; POWER FORM EQUATIONS; RECESSION CURVES; RIVER FLOW;

STREAM FLOW;

FLOW MODELING; MATHEMATICAL METHOD; RIVER CHANNEL; STREAMFLOW;

FLOW MODELING; NUMERICAL METHOD; RIVER FLOW; STREAMFLOW;

AFRICA; BLUE NILE; EAST AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NILE RIVER; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WORLD;

EID: 7244257493     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.1322     Document Type: Article

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