Opportunities for hydrologic research in the Congo Basin

D Alsdorf, E Beighley, A Laraque, H Lee… - Reviews of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We review the published results on the Congo Basin hydrology and summarize the historic
and ongoing research. Annual rainfall is~ 1900 mm/yr along an east‐west trend across the …

A review of 40 years of hydrological science and practice in southern Africa using the Pitman rainfall-runoff model

DA Hughes - Journal of Hydrology, 2013 - Elsevier
The 40th anniversary of the initial development of the Pitman rainfall-runoff (developed in
South Africa and widely applied throughout southern Africa) approximately coincides with …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the efficacy of hydro-ecological based wetland management approach for flood resilience of a large river catchment

R Gupta, V Chembolu, TI Marjoribanks, S Dutta - Journal of Hydrology, 2024 - Elsevier
Riverine flooding is a widespread global challenge and is predicted to worsen with climate
change. Wetlands have been recognised as a potential nature-based solution (NbS) to …

Rainfall and temperature in the Limpopo river basin, Southern Africa: means, variations, and trends from 1979 to 2013

E Mosase, L Ahiablame - Water, 2018 - mdpi.com
Understanding temporal and spatial characteristics of regional climate is essential for
decision making in water resource management. Established statistical and GIS techniques …

Comparison of performance of twelve monthly water balance models in different climatic catchments of China

P Bai, X Liu, K Liang, C Liu - Journal of hydrology, 2015 - Elsevier
Multi-model comparison can provide useful information for model selection and
improvement. In this study, twelve monthly water balance models with different structures …

Basin‐scale performance of a semidistributed rainfall‐runoff model for hydrological predictions and water resources assessment of large rivers: The Congo River

RM Tshimanga, DA Hughes - Water Resources Research, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Gaps in hydrological information of the Congo Basin increase uncertainties in
understanding hydroclimatic processes in the basin, and consequently the risks associated …

Incorporating wetland delineation and impacts in watershed-scale hydrologic modeling

T Qi, MM Khanaum, K Boutin, ML Otte, Z Lin, X Chu - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
In semi-distributed hydrologic models, it is difficult to account for the impacts of wetlands on
hydrologic processes, as they are based on lumped, subbasin-scale wetland concepts. It is …

Modelling the hydrological response to urban land-use changes in three Wetland catchments of the Western Himalayan region

I Rashid, SA Dar, SU Bhat - Wetlands, 2022 - Springer
Assessing the impact of land use land cover (LULC) changes on runoff is crucial for the
sustainable management of wetland catchments. This study modelled the impacts of LULC …

[HTML][HTML] Facing a future water resources management crisis in sub-Saharan Africa

DA Hughes - Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Study region Sub-Saharan Africa. Study focus Water resources availability
assessments are highly uncertain due to inadequate observation networks, and this is …

Monitoring hydrological variables from remote sensing and modeling in the Congo River Basin

A Paris, S Calmant, M Gosset… - … : a foundation for the …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This study intends to integrate heterogeneous remote sensing observations and
hydrological modeling into a simple framework to monitor hydrological variables in the …