Regionalisation for lake level simulation - The case of Lake Tana in the Upper Blue Nile, Ethiopia

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1167-1183

  Rientjes, T H M ^a   Perera, B U J ^b   Haile, A T ^a   Reggiani, P ^c   Muthuwatta, L P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b National Water Supply and Drainage Board   (Sri Lanka)

^c DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^d INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN AREA; BLUE NILE; CATCHMENT CHARACTERISTICS; CLOSURE TERM; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; ETHIOPIA; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LAKE LEVEL SIMULATION; LAKE LEVELS; LAKE TANA; MODEL PARAMETERS; MODEL PERFORMANCE; MONTE CARLO PROCEDURES; MULTI-OBJECTIVE CALIBRATION; MULTIOBJECTIVE MODELS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NASH-SUTCLIFFE COEFFICIENT; OUTFLOW PROCESS; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; REGIONAL MODEL; RELATIONS BETWEEN MODELS; TIME STEP; UNGAUGED CATCHMENT; VOLUMETRIC ERRORS; WATER BALANCE;

CALIBRATION; LAKES; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; RATING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUNOFF; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CATCHMENTS;

CALIBRATION; CATCHMENT; INFLOW; LAKE LEVEL; MODEL VALIDATION; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OUTFLOW; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; REGIONALIZATION; RUNOFF; WATER BUDGET;

BLUE NILE [SUDAN]; ETHIOPIA; LAKE TANA; SUDAN;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 79954429310     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-15-1167-2011     Document Type: Article

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