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Diurnal rainfall variability over the Upper Blue Nile Basin: A remote sensing based approach
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“These areas represent two of the major river basins in the world thereby making them desirable locations for monitoring forests, logging, soil and water managements [40, 41], and thus are of great interest to the international community.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Rientjes, T., Haile, A. T., & Fenta, A. A.
- Affiliations
- International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (NL)
- United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ET)
- Mekelle University (ET)
- Corresponding author
- Rientjes, Tom
- Venue
- International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2013-04
- Volume
- 21
- Pages
- 311-325
- ISSN
- 0303-2434 (ISSN-L)
- 1569-8432
- OpenAlex
- W1998782221
- Cited by
- 46
- References
- 41
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 3
- FWCI
- 2.19
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
- www.elsevier.com/legal/tdmrep-license (tdm)
- Locations
- International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (publishedVersion)
- University of Twente Research Information (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- University of Twente Research Information (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Climate variability and models
- Keywords
- diurnal rainfall cycle, Upper Blue Nile Basin, TRMM Precipitation Radar, TRMM Microwave Imager, orographic precipitation, rain shadow, elevation effects on rainfall, Lake Tana Basin, satellite rainfall validation, wet season rainfall
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