Forecasting spring reservoir inflows in churchill falls basin in Québec, Canada

Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 426-437

  Sveinsson, Oli G B ^a,b   Lall, Upmanu ^c   Fortin, Vincent ^d,e   Perrault, Luc ^e   Gaudet, Jocelyn ^e   Zebiak, Steve ^b   Kushnir, Yochanan ^f  

^a National Power Company   (Iceland)

^b Earth Institute   (United States)

^c Columbia Univ ^*  (United States)

^d ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^e HYDRO QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^f Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Basins; Canada; Circulation; Forecasting; Inflow; Reservoirs

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; HYDROLOGY; LINEAR REGRESSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STREAM FLOW; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; AUTOREGRESSIVE MODEL; HYDROCLIMATIC OBSERVATIONS; SINGLE FORECAST MODEL;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; LINEAR REGRESSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STREAM FLOW; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; FORECASTING METHOD; INFLOW; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RESERVOIR; SPRING WATER; STREAMFLOW; VECTOR AUTOREGRESSION;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 43949090132     PISSN: 10840699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0699(2008)13:6(426)     Document Type: Article

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