Drought analysis in the Awash River Basin, Ethiopia

Water Resources Management

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1441-1460

  Edossa, Desalegn Chemeda ^a   Babel, Mukand Singh ^b   Gupta, Ashim Das ^b  

^a HARAMAYA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Awash River Basin; Drought analysis; Hydrological drought; Meteorological drought; Standardized precipitation index; Threshold level

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGICAL DROUGHTS; METEOROLOGICAL DROUGHT; RIVER BASINS; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX; THRESHOLD LEVELS;

RIVERS; STREAM FLOW; WATERSHEDS;

DROUGHT;

ARCVIEW; DATA SET; DROUGHT; EXTREME EVENT; GIS; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINGAUGE; SEVERE WEATHER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW;

AWASH BASIN; ETHIOPIA;

EID: 77952173973     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-009-9508-0     Document Type: Article

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