Articles | Volume 22, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-5527-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-5527-2018
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25 Oct 2018
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Modelling the water balance of Lake Victoria (East Africa) – Part 2: Future projections

Inne Vanderkelen, Nicole P. M. van Lipzig, and Wim Thiery

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Lake Victoria is the second largest freshwater lake in the world and one of the major sources of the Nile River, which is controlled by two hydropower dams. In this paper we estimate the potential consequences of climate change for future water level fluctuations of Lake Victoria. Our results reveal that the operating strategies at the dam are the main controlling factors of future lake levels and that regional climate simulations used in the projections encompass large uncertainties.