Assessment of climate change impacts on the hydrology of Gilgel Abay catchment in Lake Tana basin, Ethiopia

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 23, Issue 26, 2009, Pages 3661-3669

  Abdo, K S ^a   Fiseha, B M ^b   Rientjes, T H M ^c   Gieske, A S M ^c   Haile, A T ^b,c  

^a SNNPR Water Resources Development Bureau   (Ethiopia)

^b ARBA MINCH UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate change; Gilgel Abay; HBV model; Lake Tana; Statistical downscaling

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL RUNOFF; ATMOSPHERIC MODELLING; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABLES; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE SCENARIOS; CLIMATIC VARIABLES; DOWN-SCALING; ETHIOPIA; FUTURE HORIZONS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HBV MODEL; HYDROLOGIC IMPACTS; HYDROLOGICAL IMPACTS; LAKE TANA; LOCAL SCALE; LOW EMISSION; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; MONTHLY FLOW; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELS; RAINY SEASONS; RUNOFF VOLUMES; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; TIME HORIZONS; TIME STEP; WATER BALANCE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE MODELS; LAKES; LINEAR REGRESSION; RAIN; RUNOFF; STREAM FLOW; WATER;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; BASIN; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOWNSCALING; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SEASONAL VARIATION; STREAMFLOW; WATER BUDGET;

ETHIOPIA; LAKE TANA;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 76149090152     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7363     Document Type: Article

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