Modeling impacts of climate change on freshwater availability in Africa
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Department of Natural Resources, Isfahan University of Technology, 84156 Isfahan, Iran b Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, P.O. Box 611, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran Alberta Water Research Institute (AWRI), Edmonton, AB T5N 1M9, Canada Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Sustainable Earth Office, Singapore 637459, Singapore f Spatial Science Laboratory, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA g Faculty of Science, University of Basel, Switzerland
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