Blue Nile
Linking soil erosion to on-site financial cost: lessons from watersheds in the Blue Nile basin
... The study was conducted in three watersheds – Dapo, Meja and Mizewa – with two sub-watersheds for the first and three sub-watersheds each for the last two, all in the Blue Nile Basin (Fig. 1). All the ...
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Erosion risk assessment for prioritization of conservation measures in Geleda watershed, Blue Nile basin, Ethiopia
... the Blue Nile basin in the northwestern highlands of Ethiopia to measure erosion rates and map out erosion risks for prioritization of conservation ...
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Droughts and floods over the upper catchment of the Blue Nile and their connections to the timing of El Niño and La Niña events
... the Blue Nile River JASO flow is significantly and positively correlated with the previous year’s ASON Guinea precipitation, and the Guinea precipitation is another potential predictor of the Blue ...
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Improving SWAT model performance in the upper Blue Nile Basin using meteorological data integration and subcatchment discretization
... SWAT can estimate the evapotranspiration using several methods, from which the Hargreaves and Penman–Monteith methods were compared in this study (Figs. 11 and 12). The Hargreaves method calculates the potential ...
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Impacts of Climate Change on Al Tadamon Locality's Livelihoods, Blue Nile State, Sudan
... The Blue Nile State is one of the eighteen states of Sudan. It has an area of 45,844 km² and an estimated population of 1,108,391 persons in 2018 as projected by Sudan Census Bureau of Statistics. The ...
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A multi basin SWAT model analysis of runoff and sedimentation in the Blue Nile, Ethiopia
... upper Blue Nile Basin soils were taken from the FAO soil data base (FAO-AGL, 2003) ...Eastern Nile Techni- cal Regional Office (ENTRO), and reclassified into five dom- inant land use/land covers ...
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Swat Based Soil Erosion Modeling of Nashe, Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia
... (Figure1). Nashe river sub basin, which is the study area, is located in the north western part of the Blue Nile basin and upper of Fincha’a valley. The basin is characterized by mean maximum and minimum ...
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Understanding uplift of the Ethiopian Plateau from longitudinal profile analysis of the Blue Nile drainage system
... the Blue Nile River and its major tributaries, and secondarily 2) overlay analysis of mantle tomography data to correlate with those of channel morphologic features ...
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Diversity and abundance of fishes in aveya river, blue nile basin, ethiopia
... the Blue Nile River) was low (Table 7) as compared to results reported by other workers in the upper Blue Nile, Lake Tana and Tekeze drainage ...of Blue Nile River (Lake Tana to ...
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Suitability and scenario modeling to support soil and water conservation interventions in the Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia
... In the past the blanket application and ‘ one size fits all ’ approach, and top down implementation of SWC inter- ventions have rarely been successful. The application of such interventions in the Blue Nile ...
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Impacts of climate change on Blue Nile flows using bias corrected GCM scenarios
... future rainfall, of any clear anthropogenic signal. This may be because such a signal does not exist or is simply too small compared to the very large natural variability over the up- per Blue Nile basin. ...
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AGRO-ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE KOGA WATERSHED OF THE BLUE NILE BASIN, ETHIOPIA
... The Koga River which is about 46 kms long is a tributary of the Gilgel Abay River in the headwaters of the Blue Nile Basin. The source of the river is the Wezem Mountain located at an altitude of about 3000 ...
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Soil fertility effect on water productivity of maize in the upper blue nile basin, Ethiopia
... This paper is part of the “Improved water and land management in the Ethiopian highlands and its impact on downstream stakeholders dependent on the Blue Nile” project output, supported by the Chal- lenge ...
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LANDHOLDER'S CHOICE TO ADOPT IMPROVED WATERSHED MANAGEMENT IN THE LOWER BLUE NILE BASIN, ETHIOPIA
... Watershed encompasses environmental and natural resources, which sustain diversified ecosystem services (Randhir et al., 2001) as well as economic and recreational benefits (Alemayehu et al., 2008; Legesse 2014). Studies ...
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Regionalisation for lake level simulation – the case of Lake Tana in the Upper Blue Nile, Ethiopia
... By its large size, Lake Tana has a large storage capacity that only responds slowly to the various processes of the cli- matic and hydrological cycles. Annual lake level fluctuations are approximately 1.6 m where lake ...
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Water balance modeling of Upper Blue Nile catchments using a top down approach
... The climate in the Upper Blue Nile river basin varies from humid to semi-arid and it is mainly dominated by lat- itude and altitude. The influence of these factors determine a rich variety of local ...
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Characteristics and Productivity of Volcanic Rock Aquifers in the Upper Part of Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia
... the Blue Nile basin with an objective of characterizing the different volcanic rocks aquifers and evaluation of their respective productivity for future sustainable development of groundwater in the ...the ...
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Validation of new satellite rainfall products over the Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia
... Abstract. Accurate measurement of rainfall is vital to an- alyze the spatial and temporal patterns of precipitation at various scales. However, the conventional rain gauge ob- servations in many parts of the world such ...
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Sediment management modelling in the Blue Nile Basin using SWAT model
... the Blue Nile River and its tributaries, with a general slope to the ...the Blue Nile is governed by the seasonal migration of the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone ITCZ from the south to the ...
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Low Flow Trends and Frequency Analysis in the Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia
... Low flow analysis provides crucial information for the planning and design water resource development, risk assessment and environmental flow man- agement. Understanding the low flow regimes and evaluating the magnitudes ...
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