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    GRACE Application to the Receding Lake Victoria Water Level and Australian Drought

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    Authors
    Awange, Joseph
    Sharifi, M.
    Keller, W.
    Kuhn, Michael
    Date
    2009
    Type
    Conference Paper
    
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    Awange, J.L. and Sharifi, M.A. and Keller, W. and Kuhn, M. 2009. GRACE Application to the Receding Lake Victoria Water Level and Australian Drought, in M.G. Sideris (ed), Observing our Changing Earth: International Association of Geodesy Symposium, Jul 2 2007, pp. 387-396. Perugia, Italy: Springer.
    Source Title
    Proceedings of the 2007 IAG General Assembly
    Source Conference
    Observing our Changing Earth
    DOI
    10.1007/978-3-540-85426-5_46
    ISBN
    978-3-540-85425-8
    School
    Department of Spatial Sciences
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/8016
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Lake Victoria in Africa, the world’s second largest freshwater lake, has been experiencing receding water levels since 2001. As it recedes, more than 30 million people who depend on it for livelihood are facing a disaster. Similarly, Australia is facing its worst drought on record with the livelihoods of a few million people at stake. Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment (GRACE) data for 45 months (i.e., April 2002–April 2006) are employed to analyze these emerging challenges by measuring variations in the stored water. The results indicate a general decline in the lake Victoria basins water level at a rate of 1.83 km3/month.

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