Highlights Uncertainty in the estimation of water budget from reanalysis products over the Upper Blue Nile basin Application of Local Season-Ahead Precipitation Predictions for Reservoir Operations and Management Development and Evaluation of a Vector Autoregression Precipitation Prediction Model Evaluation of Rainy Season Precipitation Analogs Development of a distributed hydrological model using meterological reanalysis data - CREST-SVAS Assessing Lake Level Variability and Water Availability in Lake Tana, Ethiopia using Groundwater Flow Model and GRACE Satellite Data Using multi-year reanalysis-derived recharge rates to drive a groundwater model for the Lake Tana region Groundwater modeling data-scarce aquifers: A case-study in the Gilgel Abay, Upper Blue Nile Development of an agent based model to study the transmission and uptake of hydro-climatic forecasts A Political Institutional Approach to Scientific Innovation: The Case of Forecast-Based Knowledge Citizen Science Initiative: Promoting public participation in science ePING- A smart phone app to collect water Phenomena Identification near Ground
