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Budgeting suspended sediment fluxes in tropical monsoonal watersheds with limited data: the Lake Tana basin Cover

Budgeting suspended sediment fluxes in tropical monsoonal watersheds with limited data: the Lake Tana basin

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/johh-2017-0039 | Journal eISSN: 1338-4333 | Journal ISSN: 0042-790X
Language: English
Page range: 65 - 78
Submitted on: Sep 28, 2016
Accepted on: Jul 4, 2017
Published on: Nov 22, 2017
Published by: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Hydrology; Institute of Hydrodynamics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague
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