Modelling catchment inflows into Lake Victoria: Regionalisation of the parameters of a conceptual water balance model

Hydrology Research

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 789-808

  Kizza, Michael ^a,b   Guerrero, Jose Luis ^b   Rodhe, Allan ^b   Xu, Chong Yu ^c   Ntale, Henry K ^a  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Ensemble regionalisation; Generalised likelihood uncertainty estimation; Lake Victoria; Proxy basin; Rainfall runoff modelling; Regionalisation

Indexed keywords

LAKE VICTORIA; PROXY-BASIN; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELLING; REGIONALISATION; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATION;

CALIBRATION; CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE MODELS; LAKES; RUNOFF;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CALIBRATION; CATCHMENT; INFLOW; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER BUDGET;

EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE VICTORIA; MARA BASIN;

EID: 84890068897     PISSN: 00291277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/nh.2012.152     Document Type: Article

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