Diurnal rainfall variability over the Upper Blue Nile Basin: A remote sensing based approach

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 311-325

  Rientjes, Tom ^a   Haile, Alemseged Tamiru ^b   Fenta, Ayele Almaw ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Addis Ababa   (Ethiopia)

^c MEKELLE UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Diurnal rainfall; Trmm pr; Trmm tmi; Upper blue nile

Indexed keywords

DIURNAL VARIATION; RAINFALL; REMOTE SENSING; RIVER BASIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRMM;

BLUE NILE BASIN; NILE BASIN;

EID: 84872765136     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2012.07.009     Document Type: Article

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