Code
01W00420
Duration
01 October 2020 → 30 September 2025
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Climatology
- Meteorology
- Surfacewater hydrology
- Physical geography and environmental geoscience not elsewhere classified
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Agricultural and food sciences
- Forest protection
Keywords
Climate modelling
mountain hydrology
mountain massifs
rain shadow
topoclimatology
vegetation cover
Project description
The spatiotemporal variability of rainfall, vegetation, and hydrology, and how topoclimate (orographic rains on windward slopes and leeward rain shadow) controls these variables in the tropical mountains of northern Ethiopia is not well known. This study uses the ALARO-0 model for the analysis of rainfall distribution and its seasonality, and statistically matches it with natural vegetation and runoff response.