Real-time flow forecasting in the absence of quantitative precipitation forecasts: A multi-model approach

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 334, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 125-140

  Goswami, Monomoy ^a   O'Connor, Kieran M ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Autoregressive; Consensus forecast; Direct multi step; Neural network; Output combination; Recursive multi step

Indexed keywords

FLOW PATTERNS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; RAIN; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

CONSENSUS FORECAST; DIRECT MULTI-STEPS; OUTPUT COMBINATION; RECURSIVE MULTI-STEPS;

HYDROLOGY;

FLOW PATTERNS; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; RAIN; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; FORECASTING METHOD; NUMERICAL METHOD; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; REAL TIME; TRANSFER FUNCTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33846452513     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2006.10.002     Document Type: Article

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