GRACE Application to the Receding Lake Victoria Water Level and Australian Drought
Lake Victoria in Africa, the world’s second largest freshwater lake, has been experiencing receding water levels since 2001. As it recedes, more than 30 million people who depend on it for livelihood are facing a disaster. Similarly, Australia is facing its worst drought on record with the livelihoo...
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| author | Awange, Joseph Sharifi, M. Keller, W. Kuhn, Michael |
| author2 | M.G. Sideris |
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| description | Lake Victoria in Africa, the world’s second largest freshwater lake, has been experiencing receding water levels since 2001. As it recedes, more than 30 million people who depend on it for livelihood are facing a disaster. Similarly, Australia is facing its worst drought on record with the livelihoods of a few million people at stake. Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment (GRACE) data for 45 months (i.e., April 2002–April 2006) are employed to analyze these emerging challenges by measuring variations in the stored water. The results indicate a general decline in the lake Victoria basins water level at a rate of 1.83 km3/month. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-80162018-03-29T09:05:25Z GRACE Application to the Receding Lake Victoria Water Level and Australian Drought Awange, Joseph Sharifi, M. Keller, W. Kuhn, Michael M.G. Sideris Lake Victoria in Africa, the world’s second largest freshwater lake, has been experiencing receding water levels since 2001. As it recedes, more than 30 million people who depend on it for livelihood are facing a disaster. Similarly, Australia is facing its worst drought on record with the livelihoods of a few million people at stake. Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment (GRACE) data for 45 months (i.e., April 2002–April 2006) are employed to analyze these emerging challenges by measuring variations in the stored water. The results indicate a general decline in the lake Victoria basins water level at a rate of 1.83 km3/month. 2009 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/8016 10.1007/978-3-540-85426-5_46 Springer restricted |
| spellingShingle | Awange, Joseph Sharifi, M. Keller, W. Kuhn, Michael GRACE Application to the Receding Lake Victoria Water Level and Australian Drought |
| title | GRACE Application to the Receding Lake Victoria Water Level and Australian Drought |
| title_full | GRACE Application to the Receding Lake Victoria Water Level and Australian Drought |
| title_fullStr | GRACE Application to the Receding Lake Victoria Water Level and Australian Drought |
| title_full_unstemmed | GRACE Application to the Receding Lake Victoria Water Level and Australian Drought |
| title_short | GRACE Application to the Receding Lake Victoria Water Level and Australian Drought |
| title_sort | grace application to the receding lake victoria water level and australian drought |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/8016 |