Hydrologic responses to land cover change: The case of Jedeb mesoscale catchment, Abay/Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 5149-5161

  Tekleab, S ^a,b,c,d   Mohamed, Y ^a,d,e   Uhlenbrook, S ^a,d   Wenninger, J ^a,d  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c HAWASSA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^e Hydraulic Research Station   (Sudan)

Author keywords

Abay Upper Blue Nile basin; Ethiopia; Hydrologic response; Jedeb catchment; Land use cover change

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AGRICULTURE; CATCHMENTS; LAND USE; SOIL MOISTURE;

BLUE NILE; CATCHMENT MANAGEMENT; ETHIOPIA; HYDROLOGIC RESPONSE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LAND USE/COVER CHANGE; MESOSCALE CATCHMENTS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

RUNOFF;

AGRICULTURAL CATCHMENT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; PEAK FLOW; RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BLUE NILE BASIN; ETHIOPIA; NILE BASIN;

EID: 84908089567     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9998     Document Type: Article

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