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Diagnosing the Important Morphometric Parameters for Water Resource Management of Geba River Basin, Tigray, Ethiopia

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Characterizing of morphometric parameters in the watershed level is important for water resources management. Geba drainage basin is a source of water for many lives. However, its geomorphology is not yet been investigated. This study is an attempt to diagnose the important morphometric parameters that have high nexus with the hydrologic condition of the drainage basin. For this purpose, the Digital Elevation Model (DEM) was used as input data and GIS was used as data processing platform. From the processed DEM data, a total of 16 parameters expected to have high nexus with the basin hydrology including, Bifurcation ratio, Stream frequency, Drainage density, Drainage texture, Infiltration number, Length of overland flow, Elongation ratio, Circulatory ratio, Form factor, Compactness coefficient, Constant of channel maintenance, Basin relief, Relief ratio, Ruggedness number, Channel gradient, and Basin slope were quantified, and their values are 4.3, 1.1 km− 2, 1.3 km− 1, 8 km− 1, 1.4 km− 3, 0.4 km, 0.2, 0.1, 0.2, 0.8, 2.9 km, 2.4 km, 0.01, 3, 0.01, 0.02, respectively. Based on morphometric characterization, values of Stream frequency, Infiltration number, Elongation ratio, Form factor, Constant of channel maintenance, Relief ratio, Channel gradient, and Basin slope are low. Drainage density is coarse, and the remained parameters fall under moderate category. All these results indicate that the Geba river basin is characterized by elongated shape, relatively moderate infiltration capacity, and hence with moderate groundwater potential.

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This research was carried out by the support of Raya University and Ethiopian Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

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  1. Department of Physics, Raya University, Tigray, Ethiopia

    Gebremedhin Godif

  2. Department of Marine Geology, Mangalore University, Mangalagangothri, Karnataka, 574199, India

    B. R. Manjunatha & H. Gangadhara Bhat

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    Balaji Narasimhan

  3. Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam, India

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Godif, G., Manjunatha, B.R., Gangadhara Bhat, H. (2022). Diagnosing the Important Morphometric Parameters for Water Resource Management of Geba River Basin, Tigray, Ethiopia. In: Dikshit, A.K., Narasimhan, B., Kumar, B., Patel, A.K. (eds) Innovative Trends in Hydrological and Environmental Systems. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 234. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0304-5_33

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