Hydrological change detection using modeling: Half a century of runoff from four rivers in the Blue Nile Basin

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3842-3851

  Gebrehiwot, Solomon Gebreyohannis ^a,b   Seibert, Jan ^c,d   Gärdenäs, Annemieke I ^a   Mellander, Per Erik ^e   Bishop, Kevin ^a,d  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e TEAGASC   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Ethiopia; parameters; residuals; runoff simulations

Indexed keywords

RAIN; RUNOFF;

ETHIOPIA; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGES; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; MONTE CARLO APPROACH; PARAMETERS; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RESIDUALS; RUNOFF SIMULATION;

WATERSHEDS;

HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; LAND COVER; LAND MANAGEMENT; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; RAINFALL; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RIVER BASIN; RUNOFF;

BLUE NILE [NILE RIVER]; ETHIOPIA; NILE RIVER;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 84879441354     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20319     Document Type: Article

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