Trends in rainfall and runoff in the Blue Nile Basin: 1964-2003

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 24, Issue 25, 2010, Pages 3747-3758

  Tesemma, Zelalem K ^a   Mohamed, Yasir A ^b,c,d   Steenhuis, Tammo S ^a,e  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (Ethiopia)

^b INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Ethiopia)

^c UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^d Hydraulic Research Station   (Sudan)

^e Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Blue Nile; Climate change; Model; Rainfall runoff models; Watershed hydrology

Indexed keywords

BASEFLOWS; BLUE NILE; DRY SEASONS; ETHIOPIA; FUTURE TRENDS; HISTORICAL TRENDS; INTERFLOW; LAKE TANA; LAND DEGRADATION; OVERLAND FLOW; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELS; RAINY SEASONS; TIME SPAN; WATERSHED HYDROLOGY;

CLIMATE MODELS; DROUGHT; GROUNDWATER FLOW; LAKES; LANDFORMS; RAIN; RUNOFF; WATER; WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISCHARGE; DRY SEASON; HYDROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERLAND FLOW; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; TREND ANALYSIS; WATERSHED;

BLUE NILE BASIN; NILE BASIN; SUDAN;

EID: 78649459838     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7893     Document Type: Article

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