Complexity-based robust hydrologic prediction

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Pande, Saket ^a   McKee, Mac ^b   Bastidas, Luis A ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Utah State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENSEMBLE MEMBERS; ENSEMBLE METHODS; FINITE SAMPLE PERFORMANCE; FUTURE OBSERVATIONS; HYDROLOGIC PREDICTION; MODELING UNCERTAINTIES; NEAREST NEIGHBOR METHOD; NEAREST NEIGHBOR MODEL; ONE STEP; PREDICTION MODEL; PROBABILISTIC ENSEMBLE; ROBUST PARAMETERS; SAMPLE SIZES; SMALL SAMPLE SIZE; STREAMFLOW PREDICTION; UNCERTAINTY BOUNDS; VC DIMENSION; WATERRESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SAMPLING; WATER MANAGEMENT;

FORECASTING;

FORECASTING METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

EID: 72149090141     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007524     Document Type: Article

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