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Articles | Volume 21, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-4907-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-4907-2017
Research article
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28 Sep 2017
Research article |  | 28 Sep 2017

Improving SWAT model performance in the upper Blue Nile Basin using meteorological data integration and subcatchment discretization

Erwin Isaac Polanco, Amr Fleifle, Ralf Ludwig, and Markus Disse

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In this research, SWAT was used to model the upper Blue Nile Basin where comparisons between...
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