The 2019-2020 Rise in Lake Victoria Monitored from Space: Exploiting the State-of-the-Art GRACE-FO and the Newly

Mehdi Khaki1, Joseph Awange2

  • 1School of Engineering, University of Newcastle, Callaghan 2308, Australia.

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