The effects of land use change on hydrological responses in the Choke Mountain Range (Ethiopia) - A new approach addressing land use dynamics in the model SWAT

iEMSs 2012 - Managing Resources of a Limited Planet: Proceedings of the 6th Biennial Meeting of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3022-3029

  Koch, Friedrich J ^a,e   Van Griensven, Ann ^a,b   Uhlenbrook, Stefan ^a,c   Tekleab, Sirak ^a,d   Teferi, E ^d  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^e HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blue nile; Dynamic land use change; Ethiopia; LUPSA; SWAT

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894135933     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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