References for Upstream/Downstream Project (Ethiopia)

 

Folder: Hydrology

 

Bewket W, Sterk G
Dynamics in land cover and its effect on stream flow in the Chemoga watershed, Blue Nile basin, Ethiopia 
HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES 19 (2): 445-458                                                                               FEB 2005

                                                                                                                               

Conway D
The hydrology of the Nile
GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL 167: 181-182 Part 2                                                                           JUN 2001

Book Review: No abstract available

 

Conway D
The climate and hydrology of the Upper Blue Nile river 
GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL 166: 49-62 Part 1                                                                               MAR 2000

 

Conway D, Hulme,  M
RECENT FLUCTUATIONS IN PRECIPITATION AND RUNOFF OVER THE NILE SUB-BASINS AND THEIR IMPACT ON MAIN NILE DISCHARGE 
CLIMATIC CHANGE 25 (2): 127-151                                                                                                OCT 1993

 

Haregeweyn N, Poesen J, Nyssen J, et al.
Reservoirs in Tigray (Northern Ethiopia): Characteristics and sediment deposition problems 
LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT 17 (2): 211-230                                        MAR-APR 2006

 

Ibrahim, AM
The Nile – Description, hydrology, control and utilization

HYDROBIOLOGIA 110 (MAR): 1-13                                                                                                MAR 1984

 

M C Todd, E C Barrett, M J Beaumont, and T J Bellerby

Estimation of daily rainfall over the upper Nile river basin using a continuously calibrated satellite infrared technique

METEOROLOGICAL APPLICATIONS 6: 201–210                                                        1999

 

van Griensven A., Schuol, J., Diez Herrera, M., Bauwens, W.

Development of a hydroinformatics system for the water resources of the Nile river basin

Geophysical Research Abstracts, 8 (07672)                                                                                  2006

 

Vorosmarty CJ, Meybeck M, Fekete B, Sharma K, Green P, Syvitski JPM

Anthropogenic sediment retention: major global impact from registered river impoundments 
GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE 39 (1-2): 169-190                                                            OCT 2003

 

Folder: Geology

 

Ayalew L, Yamagishi H
Slope failures in the Blue Nile basin, as seen from landscape evolution perspective 
GEOMORPHOLOGY 57 (1-2): 95-116                                                                                                JAN 2004

 

Kebede S, Travi Y, Alemayehu T, and Ayenew, T

Groundwater recharge, circulation and geochemical evolution in the source region of the Blue Nile River, Ethiopia 
APPLIED GEOCHEMISTRY 20 (9): 1658-1676                                                                                SEP 2005

 

Pik R, Marty B, Carignan J, Lave, J

Stability of the Upper Nile drainage network (Ethiopia) deduced from (U-Th)/He thermochronometry: implications for uplift and erosion of the Afar plume dome 
EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS 215 (1-2): 73-88                                               OCT 2003

 

Folder: Models on Blue Nile

 

Antar MA, Elassiouti I, Allam MN
Rainfall-runoff modelling using artificial neural networks technique: a Blue Nile catchment case study 
HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES 20 (5): 1201-1216                                                                           MAR 30 2006

 

CEEPA (Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa) (R. Hassan)

CLIMATE CHANGE AND AFRICAN AGRICULTURE

Policy Note No.30                                                                                                                                AUG 2006

Web Information: All the reports produced under this GEF/WB/CEEPA funded project, Regional Climate, Water and Agriculture: Impacts on and Adaptation of Agro-ecological Systems in Africa, are found on CEEPA e-Library at its website link (http://www.ceepa.co.za/discussionp2006.html) and can also be accessed directly through the project link (http://www.ceepa.co.za/Climate_Change/project.html)

 

Conway, D and Hulme, M

The Impacts of Climate Variability and Future Climate Change in the Nile Basin on Water Resources in Egypt

Water Resources Development, 12 (3):  277- 296                                                                            1996

 

El-Fandy, MG, Ashour, ZH, and Taiel, SMM

Time series models adoptable fro forecasting Nile floods and Ethiopian rainfalls

BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY 75 (1): 83 - 94     JAN 1994

 

Mishra, A; Hata, T

A grid-based runoff generation and flow routing model for the Upper Blue Nile basin
HYDROLOGICAL SCIENCES JOURNAL-JOURNAL DES SCIENCES HYDROLOGIQUES, 51 (2): 191-206                                                                                                                                                         APR 2006

 

Mishra, A, Hata, T, Abdelhadi, AW, Tada, A, and Tanakamaru, H

Recession flow analysis of the Blue Nile River

HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES 17 (14): 2825 – 2835                                                      OCT 2004

 

Moussa, OM                                                                                                                                       

Hydrological regression sediment-yield model for ungaged stations along the Blue Nile coarse

Technical papers / American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) and the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM) Annual Convention: 133-140                                                                                                1991

 

Moussa, OM, Bedford KW and Smith SE                                                                                                      

Satellite data based sediment-yield models for the Blue Nile

ASPRS technical papers: 1989 ASPRS-ACSM Fall Convention, Cleveland, Ohio, September 17-21.  From compass to computer:  379-386                                                                                                                    1989

 

Tsintikidis D, Georgakakos KP, Artan GA, et al.
A feasibility study on mean areal rainfall estimation and hydrologic response in the Blue Nile region using METEOSAT images 
JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY 221 (3-4): 97-116                                                                               AUG 1999

 

SubFolder to Models on Blue Nile: WATER BALANCE

 

Conway D
A water balance model of the Upper Blue Nile in Ethiopia 
HYDROLOGICAL SCIENCES JOURNAL-JOURNAL DES SCIENCES HYDROLOGIQUES 42 (2): 265-286                                                                                                                          APR 1997

 

Johnson, PA and Curtis, PD

Water-balance of Blue Nile River Basin in Ethiopia

JOURNAL OF IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE ENGINEERING-ASCE, 120 (3): 573-590

MAY-JUN 1994

S. Kebede, Y. Travi, T. Alemayehu, V. Marc

Water balance of Lake Tana and its sensitivity to fluctuations in rainfall, Blue Nile basin, Ethiopia

JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY, 316: 233–247                                                                            2006

 

Folder: Models on Nile

 

Atiem IA, Harmancioglu NB
Assessment of regional floods using L-moments approach: The case of the river Nile 
WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT 20 (5): 723-747                                                               OCT 2006

 

Barrett, CB.

The Development of the Nile hydrometeorological forecast system 
WATER RESOURCES BULLETIN 29 (6): 933-938                                                                          NOV-DEC 1993

 

Eldaw AK, Salas, JD and Garcia LA

Long-Range Forecasting of the Nile River Flows Using Climatic Forcing

JOURNAL OF APPLIED METEROLOGY 42: 890-904                                                      2003

 

Eltahir, EAB
El Nino and the natural variability in the flow of the Nile River

WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH 32 (1): 131-137                                                        JAN 1996

 

Gheith H, Sultan M
Construction of a hydrologic model for estimating Wadi runoff and groundwater recharge in the Eastern Desert, Egypt 
JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY 263 (1-4): 36-55                                                                                 JUN 2002  

 

Haregeweyn N, Poesen J, Nyssen J, et al.
Specific sediment yield in Tigray-Northem Ethiopia: Assessment and semi-quantitative modelling 
GEOMORPHOLOGY 69 (1-4): 315-331                                                                                              JUL 2005

 

Hengsdijk, H, Meijerink, GW, and Mosugu, ME

Reply to “Comment on Modelling the effect of soil and water conservation practices in Tigray, Ethiopia (vol 105, pg 29, 2005) “

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 114: 412-414                       JUN 2006

 

Hengsdijk, H, Meijerink, GW, and Mosugu, ME

Modelling the effect of soil and water conservation practices in Tigray, Ethiopia

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 105: 29-40                                           2005

 

Mohamed, YA; Savenije, HHG; Bastiaanssen, WGM; van den Hurk, BJJM

New lessons on the Sudd hydrology learned from remote sensing and climate modeling
HYDROLOGY AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES, 10 (4): 507-518                                             2006

 

Mohamed YA, van den Hurk BJJM, Savenije HHG, Bastiaanssen, WGM
Hydroclimatology of the Nile: results from a regional climate model 
HYDROLOGY AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES 9 (3): 263-278                                                2005

 

Mohamed YA, Bastiaanssen WGM, Savenije HHG
Spatial variability of evaporation and moisture storage in the swamps of the upper Nile studied by remote sensing techniques 
JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY 289 (1-4): 145-164                                                                             APR 2004

 

NBCBN-RE (Nile Basin Capacity Building Network) (Group II)

GIS-based watershed modeling in the Nile Basin Countries

GIS & Modeling Application in River Engineering Research Cluster          

                                                                                                                                                                2005

Nyssen J, Haregeweyn N, Descheemaeker K, et al.
Comment on “Modelling the effect of soil and water conservation practices in Tigray, Ethiopia (vol 105, pg 29, 2005) “
AGRICULTURE, ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT 114 (2-4): 407-411                    JUN 2006

 

Nyssen, J., Poesen, J., Moeyersons, J., Deckersd, J., Haile, M., Lange, A.

Human impact on the environment in the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands—a state of the art

Earth-Science Reviews 64: 273–320                                                                                        2004

 

Sene KJ, Tate EL, Farquharson FAK
Sensitivity studies of the impacts of climate change on White Nile flows 
CLIMATIC CHANGE 50 (1-2): 177-208                                                                                            2001

Sutcliffe, JV

Comment on ‘Spatial variability of evaporation and moisture storage in swamps of the upper Nile studied by remote sensing technique’ by Y.A. Mohamed et al., 2004. Journal of Hydrology 289, 145 - 164

JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY, 314: 45 – 47                                                                      2005

 

Tamene L, Park SJ, Dikau R, et al.
Analysis of factors determining sediment yield variability in the highlands of northern Ethiopia 
GEOMORPHOLOGY 76 (1-2): 76-91                                                                                  JUN 2006

 

Folder: Models non-Nile

 

Bryson RA, Bryson RU
Site-specific high-resolution models of the monsoon for Africa and Asia 
GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE 26 (1-3): 77-84                                              NOV 2000

 

Coe, MT

Modeling terrestrial hydrological systems at the continental scale: Testing the accuracy of an atmospheric GCM
JOURNAL OF CLIMATE, 13 (4): 686-704                                                                                        FEB 2000

 

Elshamy, ME; Wheater, HS; Gedney, N; et al.

Evaluation of the rainfall component of a weather generator for climate impact studies
JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY, 326 (1-4): 1-24                                                                  JUL 2006

 

Guo SL, Kachroo RK, Mngodo RJ
Nonparametric kernel estimation of low flow quantiles 
JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY 185 (1-4): 335-348                                                                             NOV 1996

 

Kondrashov D, Ghil M
Spatio-temporal filling of missing points in geophysical data sets 
NONLINEAR PROCESSES IN GEOPHYSICS 13 (2): 151-159                                        2006

 

Liden R, Harlin J
Analysis of conceptual rainfall-runoff modelling performance in different climates 
JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY 238 (3-4): 231-247                                                                             DEC 2000

 

Miller JR, Russel GL, Caliri G
Continental-Scale river flow in climate models

JOURNAL OF CLIMATE 7 (6): 914-928                                                                                           JUN 1994

 

Senay, GB; Verdin, JP

Developing index maps of water-harvest potential in Africa
APPLIED ENGINEERING IN AGRICULTURE, 20 (6): 789-799                                     NOV 2004

 

Tate E, Sutcliffe J, Conway D, and Farquharson, F.

Water balance of Lake Victoria: update to 2000 and climate change modelling to 2100 
HYDROLOGICAL SCIENCES JOURNAL-JOURNAL DES SCIENCES HYDROLOGIQUES 49 (4): 563-574                                                                                                                                                          AUG 2004

 

Taylor JC, van de Giesen N, Steenhuis TS

West Africa: Volta discharge data quality assessment and use 
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN WATER RESOURCES ASSOCIATION 42 (4): 1113-1126

AUG 2006

Ward, FA, Booker, JF, and Michelsen, AM

Integrated Economic, Hydrologic, and Institutional Analysis of Policy Responses to Mitigate Drought Impacts in Rio Grande Basin

JOURNAL OF WATER RESOURCES PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT, 132 (6): 488 - 502                                                                                                                                                                                               NOV 2006

Winsemius, HC; Savenije, HHG; Gerrits, AMJ; et al.

Comparison of two model approaches in the Zambezi river basin with regard to model reliability and identifiability
HYDROLOGY AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES, 10 (3): 339-352                                             2006

 

Subfolder of Models nonNile: ETHIOPIA

 

Ayenew T, Gebreegziabher Y
Application of a spreadsheet hydrological model for computing the long-term water balance of Lake Awassa, Ethiopia 
HYDROLOGICAL SCIENCES JOURNAL-JOURNAL DES SCIENCES HYDROLOGIQUES 51 (3): 418-431                                 

 

Billi, P and Caparrini, F

Estimating land cover effects on evapotranspiration with remote sensing: a case study in Ethiopian Rift Valley / Estimation par télédétection des effets de l'occupation du sol sur l'évapotranspiration: un cas d'étude dans la Vallée du Rift Ethiopien

HYDROLOG SCI J 51 (4): 655-670                                                                                              AUG 2006

 

Haregeweyn N, Yohannes F
Testing and evaluation of the agricultural non-point source pollution model (AGNPS) on Augucho catchment, western Hararghe, Ethiopia 
AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT 99 (1-3): 201-212                               OCT 2003

 

Legesse D, Vallet-Coulomb C, Gasse F
Hydrological response of a catchment to climate and land use changes in Tropical Africa: case study South Central Ethiopia 
JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY 275 (1-2): 67-85                                                                         APR 25 2003

 

Vallet-Coulomb C, Legesse D, Gasse F, Travi Y, Chernet T

Lake evaporation estimates in tropical Africa (Lake Ziway, Ethiopia) 
JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY 245 (1-4): 1-18                                                                           MAY 2001

 

Subfolder of Models nonNile: ETHIOPIA: Field or Other Studies

 

Beaulieu A, Gaonac'h H
Scaling of differentially eroded surfaces in the drainage network of the Ethiopian Plateau 
REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT 82 (1): 111-122                                              SEP 2002

 

Descheemaeker K, Nyssen J, Poesen J, et al.
Runoff on slopes with restoring vegetation: A case study from the Tigray highlands, Ethiopia 
JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY 331 (1-2): 219-241                                                             NOV 2006

 

Mwendera EJ, Saleem MAM
Infiltration rates, surface runoff, and soil loss as influenced by grazing pressure in the Ethiopian highlands 
SOIL USE AND MANAGEMENT 13 (1): 29-35                                                              MAR 1997