Low and high flow analyses and wavelet application for characterization of the Blue Nile River system

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 241-252

  Melesse, Assefa ^a   Abtew, Wossenu ^b   Dessalegne, Tibebe ^c   Wang, Xixi ^d  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Environmental Resource Assessment Department   (United States)

^c BEM Systems Inc   (United States)

^d TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blue Nile River; FDC; GRACE; Low and high flow; PDF; Trend analysis

Indexed keywords

ANDERSONS; BLUE NILE; BLUE NILE RIVER; CHI-SQUARE TESTS; DEVELOPING FLOW; FATIGUE LIFE; FLOW DURATION CURVE; FREQUENCY-TIME LOCALIZATION; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENT SATELLITES; HIGH FLOW; HYDROGRAPHS; INTRA-ANNUAL VARIABILITY; KOLMOGOROV-SMIRNOV; LAND COVER; LOG-NORMAL; LOW FLOW; MONTHLY CHANGE; RECURRENCE INTERVALS; RIVER SYSTEMS; TREND ANALYSIS; UNGAUGED WATERSHED; WATER EQUIVALENT;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; ELECTRIC CONTROL EQUIPMENT; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; LANDFORMS; MOISTURE; RIVERS; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ANNUAL VARIATION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HYDROGRAPH; MOISTURE FLUX; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAINFALL; RIVER BASIN; RIVER FLOW; RIVER SYSTEM; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TREND ANALYSIS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

BLUE NILE [NILE RIVER]; NILE RIVER;

EID: 77949573225     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7312     Document Type: Article

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