Sensitivity of SWAT simulated streamflow to climatic changes within the Eastern Nile River basin

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 391-407

  Mengistu, D T ^a,b   Sorteberg, A ^b  

^a Arba Mich University   (Ethiopia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL RAINFALL; BLUE NILE; CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; CLIMATIC CHANGES; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; RIVER BASINS; RUNOFF COEFFICIENTS; SUBBASINS; SURFACE RUNOFFS; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TEMPERATURE DATA;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; GROUNDWATER; RUNOFF; WATERSHEDS;

STREAM FLOW;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RIVER BASIN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

NILE BASIN;

EID: 84857221880     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-16-391-2012     Document Type: Article

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