Changes in land cover, rainfall and stream flow in Upper Gilgel Abbay catchment, Blue Nile basin - Ethiopia

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1979-1989

  Rientjes, T H M ^a   Haile, A T ^a   Kebede, E ^b   Mannaerts, C M M ^a   Habib, E ^c   Steenhuis, T S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b SNNPR Water Resources Development   (Ethiopia)

^c University of Louisiana at Lafayette   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANNUAL FLOW; BLUE NILE; CATCHMENT AREA; CHANGE DETECTION; CLASSIFICATION ANALYSIS; ETHIOPIA; EXCEEDANCE PROBABILITY; FOREST COVER; HIGH FLOW; LAND COVER; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; LAND-COVER CHANGE; LOW FLOW; MANN-KENDALL TEST; WET SEASON;

CATCHMENTS; LANDFORMS; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; RUNOFF; STATISTICAL TESTS; STREAM FLOW;

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CATCHMENT; CLASSIFICATION; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; FLOW MODELING; FLOW PATTERN; LAND COVER; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; REMOTE SENSING; STREAMFLOW;

ETHIOPIA; GILGEL ABBAY BASIN;

EID: 79959714640     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-15-1979-2011     Document Type: Article

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