Influence of climate variability on representative QDF predictions of the upper Blue Nile basin

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 411, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 355-365

  Taye, Meron Teferi ^a   Willems, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Climate oscillation; Flow duration frequency (QDF); Hydrological extremes; Upper Blue Nile basin

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC VARIABLES; BIAS CORRECTION; BLUE NILE; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATIC VARIABLES; COMBINED EFFECT; ETHIOPIA; FLOW-DURATION-FREQUENCY (QDF); HIGH FLOW; HISTORICAL RECORDS; HYDROLOGICAL EXTREMES; LOW FLOW; MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; NATURAL VARIABILITY; SUBBASINS; TEMPORAL CHANGE; TERM VALUE; WET AND DRY; WET PERIOD;

CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; FORECASTING; OSCILLATING FLOW; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; ERROR CORRECTION; EXTREME EVENT; FLOW MODELING; HISTORICAL RECORD; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; LAND MANAGEMENT; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER MANAGEMENT;

BLUE NILE BASIN; ETHIOPIA; NILE BASIN;

EID: 81555199974     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.10.019     Document Type: Article

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