Rainfall intensity and groundwater recharge: Empirical evidence from the Upper Nile Basin

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Owor, M ^a,b   Taylor, R G ^a   Tindimugaya, C ^c   Mwesigwa, D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^c Ministry of Water and Environment   (Uganda)

Author keywords

climatology in global change; ground water hydrology; hydroclimatology; regional climate change

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955489910     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/4/3/035009     Document Type: Article

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