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Articles | Volume 25, issue 11
Articles | Volume 25, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-5641-2021
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-5641-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 25, issue 11
Research article
 | 
03 Nov 2021
Research article |  | 03 Nov 2021

Land use and climate change effects on water yield from East African forested water towers

Charles Nduhiu Wamucii, Pieter R. van Oel, Arend Ligtenberg, John Mwangi Gathenya, and Adriaan J. Teuling

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East African water towers (WTs) are under pressure from human influences within and without, but the water yield (WY) is more sensitive to climate changes from within. Land use changes have greater impacts on WY in the surrounding lowlands. The WTs have seen a strong shift towards wetter conditions while, at the same time, the potential evapotranspiration is gradually increasing. The WTs were identified as non-resilient, and future WY may experience more extreme variations.
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