Kampata, J.M.

Rientjes, T.H.M.

Timmermans, J.

English

Over the past decades, the Kabompo River Basin in Zambia is affected by deforestation and land degradation as a consequence of intensified agriculture and mining. Changes presumably have affected the hydrological catchment behaviour and related seasonal flow regimes. Impact assessments are unknown for the basin.In this study multi-decadal time series of rainfall and stream flow were evaluated by trend analysis, change point detection methods and analysis on high and low flow exceedance probabilities. Results are combined with satellite based land cover observations for 1984, 1994, 2001 and 2009. Unsupervised classification of the Landsat images indicate pronounced land cover changes. Preliminary results of this study show that i) precipitation time series are not directly affected by climate change and ii) changes in stream flow can be linked to changes in land cover

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Effects of land cover change on the hydrologic regime of Kabompo River Basin, Zambia + powerpoint

https://ris.utwente.nl/ws/files/28154383/Kampata2013effects.pdf

Effects of land cover change on the hydrologic regime of Kabompo River Basin, Zambia + powerpoint

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