Hydro-climatic trends and water resource management implications based on multi-scale data for the Lake Victoria region, Kenya
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15544192 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexander Koutsouris (0000-0001-5132-752X, Stockholm University, corresponding author), A J Koutsouris, Georgia Destouni (0000-0001-9408-4425, Bolin Centre for Climate Research), Jerker Jarsjö (0000-0003-3407-8618, Bolin Centre for Climate Research), Steve W Lyon (0000-0002-1137-648X, Stockholm University) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 034005-034005 |
| Publication date | 2010-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Research Letters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1748-9326 • E-ISSN: 1748-9326 |
| Publisher | IOP Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1088/1748-9326/5/3/034005 |
| OpenAlex | W2022695843 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Unreliable rainfall may be a main cause of poverty in rural areas, such as the Kisumu district by Lake Victoria in Kenya. Climate change may further increase the negative effects of rainfall uncertainty. These effects could be mitigated to some extent through improved and adaptive water resource management and planning, which relies on our interpretations and projections of the coupled hydro-climatic system behaviour and its development trends. In order to identify and quantify the main differences and consistencies among such hydro-climatic assessments, this study investigates trends and exemplifies their use for important water management decisions for the Lake Victoria drainage basin (LVDB), based on local scale data for the Orongo village in the Kisumu district, and regional scale data for the whole LVDB. Results show low correlation between locally and regionally observed hydro-climatic trends, and large differences, which in turn affects assessments of important water resource management parameters. However, both data scales converge in indicating that observed local and regional hydrological discharge trends are primarily driven by local and regional water use and land use changes
Cartography · Climate change · Climatology · Drainage · Environmental resource management · Geography · Hydrology (agriculture · Physical geography · Resource (disambiguation · Scale (ratio · Water resource management · Water resources · Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity · Environmental Science · Water resources management and optimization · Ecology · Geology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2015 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |