Articles | Volume 21, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-3145-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-3145-2017
Research article
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29 Jun 2017
Research article |  | 29 Jun 2017

Modeling the water budget of the Upper Blue Nile basin using the JGrass-NewAge model system and satellite data

Wuletawu Abera, Giuseppe Formetta, Luca Brocca, and Riccardo Rigon

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ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by Editor and Referees) (18 Nov 2016) by Dominic Mazvimavi
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ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (04 Feb 2017) by Dominic Mazvimavi
RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (26 Feb 2017)
ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by Editor and Referees) (26 Mar 2017) by Dominic Mazvimavi
AR by Riccardo Rigon on behalf of the Authors (16 May 2017)  Manuscript 
ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (22 May 2017) by Dominic Mazvimavi
AR by Riccardo Rigon on behalf of the Authors (25 May 2017)  Manuscript 
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Short summary
This study documents a state-of-the-art estimation of the water budget (rainfall, evapotranspiration, discharge, and soil and groundwater storage) components for the Upper Blue Nile river. The budget uses various JGrass-NewAGE components, satellite data and all ground measurements available. The analysis shows that precipitation of the basin is 1360 ± 230 mm per year. Evapotranspiration accounts for 56 %, runoff is 33 %, and storage varies from minus 10 % to plus 17 % of the annual water budget.