EGU Topical conference

This year, three important meetings of water science  jointly organised at Addis Ababa, from November 18-20, 2015.  The three meetings are the Alexander von Humboldt Conference of the European Geosciences Union, the STAHY workshop of the International Commission on Statistical Hydrology of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (ICSH-IAHS) and the Leonardo Conference of the Hydrological Sciences Division of the European Geosciences Union. While there were a lot of good presentation, the following three presentations were more interesting topics of  basin water balance modelling  in general and our (my) approach of doing water balance estimation in particular. 

• Towards Optimization of Reservoir Operations for Hydropower Production in East Africa: Seasonal Climate Forecasts (Leonardo Lecture) --- by Mekonnen Gebremichael. Abstract 
• Education and TAHMO, the Trans-African Hydro-Meteorological Observatory --- by Nick van de Giesen. Abstract  
• How important are soils for hydrological modelling?  --- by Hubert H.G. Savenije. Abstrac 
• characterisation of the regional variability of seasonal water balances within the Omo-Gibe River basin --- by Adanech Yared Jillo 

I had two presentations: One on the comparison of satellite rainfall estimation products for the purpose of basin water balance modelling inputs, and the second was a work in progress on JGrass-NewAge set-up for water balance estimation in Upper Blue Nile basin.  The abstract can be found here and here, respectively. A video of  one of the my presentation (or a part of it) is recorded by my friend and can also be found in this you tube.