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Jayanga T. Samarasinghe, Randika K. Makumbura, Charuni Wickramarachchi, Jeewanthi Sirisena, Miyuru B. Gunathilake, Nitin Muttil, Fang Yenn Teo and Upaka Rathnayake
Understanding the changes in climate and land use/land cover (LULC) over time is important for developing policies for minimizing the socio-economic impacts of riverine floods. The present study evaluates the influence of hydro-climatic factors and anthr...
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Balázs Garamszegi, László Nagy, Tamás Ács, András Morgós, Mátyás Árvai, Zsolt Pinke and Zoltán Kern
Lowland forests benefiting from groundwater availability are important ecosystems in Central Europe, both from ecological and economic perspectives. Besides a great reduction in their extent in the historical times and further shifts in the land use and ...
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Jeff Romm, Esther Conrad and Inger Elisabeth Måren
Highly variable water regimes, such as California?s, contain distinctive problems in the pursuit of secure timing, quantities and distributions of highly variable flows. Their formal and informal systems of water control must adapt rapidly to forceful an...
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David Ortega-Gaucin, Jesús De la Cruz Bartolón and Heidy V. Castellano Bahena
Drought is one of the most harmful hydro climatic threats to society. Mexico has been historically affected by recurring and long-lasting droughts that have severely impacted society and the economy. Consequently, public programs and policies have been d...
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Christophe Bouvier, Lamia Bouchenaki and Yves Tramblay
The vulnerability to floods in Africa has increased over the last decades, together with a modification of land cover as urbanized areas are increasing, agricultural practices are changing, and deforestation is increasing. Rainfall-runoff models that pro...
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Xuejun Zhang, Qiuhong Tang, Guoyong Leng, Xingcai Liu, Zhe Li and Zhongwei Huang
Initial conditions (ICs) and climate forecasts (CFs) are the two primary sources of seasonal hydrological forecast skill. However, their relative contribution to predictive skill remains unclear in China. In this study, we investigate the relative roles ...
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Stefan Liersch, Hagen Koch, Fred Fokko Hattermann
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Close to the border with Sudan, Ethiopia is currently building the largest hydroelectric power plant in Africa with a storage volume corresponding to approximately 1.5 years of the mean discharges of the Blue Nile. This endeavor is controversially debate...
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Hadush K. Meresa, Marzena Osuch, Renata Romanowicz
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The nature of drought conditions is estimated using a range of indices describing different aspects of drought events. Three drought indices are evaluated, namely the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration I...
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Ganiyu Titilope Oyerinde, Dominik Wisser, Fabien C.C. Hountondji, Ayo J. Odofin, Agnide E. Lawin, Abel Afouda and Bernd Diekkrüger
Climate change will have large impacts on water resources and its predictions are fraught with uncertainties in West Africa. With the current global drive for renewable energy due to climate change, there is a need for understanding the effects of hydro-...
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Fatima Kies,Ahmed Kerfouf
Different hydro climatic conditionsat and above a continental shelf have significant effects on the ecology of theenvironment (temperature, nutrient richness and pelagic production). Indeed,bioclimatic changes defined clearly reflects the prevailing cond...
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