Evaluation of CFSR climate data for hydrologic prediction in data-scarce watersheds: An application in the blue nile river basin

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1226-1241

  Dile, Yihun Taddele ^a,b   Srinivasan, Raghavan ^c  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CFSR; Ethiopia; Hydrologic cycle; Lake tana basin; Meteorology; SWAT; Time series analysis; Upper blue nile basin

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; LAKES; METEOROLOGY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATERSHEDS;

BLUE NILE; CFSR; ETHIOPIA; HYDROLOGIC CYCLES; LAKE TANA; SWAT;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84918832685     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: 17521688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jawr.12182     Document Type: Article

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