Changes in extreme rainfall indices at the landscape and seasonal scales in the Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia Climate Alemayehu Muluneh 1 & Woldeamlak Bewket 2 & Saskia Keesstra 3 & Leo Stroosnijder 3 Acknowledgment: This study was supported by the Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education (NUFFIC) and International Foundation for Science (IFS) 1 School of Biosystems and Environmental Engineering, Hawassa University, P.O. Box 05, Hawassa, Ethiopia 2 Department of Geography & Environmental Studies, Addis Ababa University, P.O. Box 150372, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 3 Soil physics and Land Management Group, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 4, 6708 PB Wageningen, Netherlands