Spatial rainfall variability and runoff response during an extreme event in a semi-arid catchment in the South Pare Mountains, Tanzania

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1659-1670

  Mul, M L ^a   Savenije, H H G ^a,b   Uhlenbrook, S ^a,b  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASEFLOW; CATCHMENT; EXTREME EVENT; FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HYDROGRAPH; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RECHARGE; SEMIARID REGION;

KILIMANJARO [TANZANIA]; PARE MOUNTAINS; TANZANIA;

EID: 77951823535     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-13-1659-2009     Document Type: Article

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