Application of satellite-derived rainfall for hydrological modelling in the data-scarce Black Volta trans-boundary basin

Hydrology Research

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 777-791

  Adjei, Kwaku Amaning ^a,b   Ren, Liliang ^a   Appiah Adjei, Emmanuel Kwame ^b   Odai, Samuel Nii ^b  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Black Volta; Data scarce region; Prediction in Ungauged Basins (PUB); SWAT; TMPA

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CLIMATE MODELS; GAGES; HYDROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN GAGES; SATELLITES; STREAM FLOW;

BLACK VOLTA; DATA-SCARCE REGION; PREDICTION IN UNGAUGED BASINS; SWAT; TMPA;

RAIN;

CALIBRATION; CORRELATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MODEL VALIDATION; RUNOFF; SATELLITE DATA; STREAMFLOW; TRMM;

MOUHOUN BASIN;

EID: 84943242262     PISSN: 19989563     EISSN: 22247955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/nh.2014.111     Document Type: Article

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