Diurnal river flow variations and development planning in the tropics.

From: The Geographical Journal | Date: November 1, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

Assessment of water resources availability for development planning is normally dependent on a time series of humanly-observed or automatically recorded water levels and their processing to flows using stage-discharge relationships developed from current meter gaugings. This paper examines difficulties associated with river level records in some areas in Kenya where pronounced diurnal variation in rainfall patterns occur; in such cases once or twice per day observations are inadequate for determining water resources availability for project planning. The paper is structured in the ...

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