Towards the characterization of streamflow simulation uncertainty through multimodel ensembles

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 298, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 222-241

  Georgakakos, Konstantine P ^a   Seo, Dong Jun ^b   Gupta, Hoshin ^c   Schaake, John ^b   Butts, Michael B ^d  

^a HYDROLOGIC RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Harshbarger Room 318 85721 ^*  (United States)

^d DHI Water Environ Agern A   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Distributed hydrologic modeling; Flow forecasting; Forecast reliability; Multimodel ensemble prediction; Parameter uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; RADAR; RAIN; STATISTICAL METHODS; STREAM FLOW; WEATHER FORECASTING;

FLOW SIMULATION STATISTICS; STREAMFLOW SIMULATION UNCERTAINTY;

HYDROLOGY;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FORECASTING METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PARAMETERIZATION; STREAMFLOW;

EID: 4143139874     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2004.03.037     Document Type: Conference Paper

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