Modelling of flood hazard extent in data sparse areas: a case study of the Oti River basin, West Africa

Study region: Terrain and hydrological data are scarce in many African countries. The coarse spatial resolution of freely available Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission elevation data and the absence of flow gauges on flood-prone reaches, such as the Oti River studied here, make flood inundation modell...

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Main Authors: Kossi Komi, Jeffrey Neal, Mark A. Trigg, Bernd Diekkrüger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-04-01
Series:Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214581817300757