Articles | Volume 19, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-2275-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-2275-2015
Research article
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13 May 2015
Research article |  | 13 May 2015

The question of Sudan: a hydro-economic optimization model for the Sudanese Blue Nile

S. Satti, B. Zaitchik, and S. Siddiqui

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