Use of 4 Km, 1 hr, precipitation forecasts to drive a distributed hydrologic model for flash flood prediction

86th AMS Annual Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Reed, Seann ^a   Fulton, Richard ^a   Zhang, Ziya ^a   Guan, Shucai ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE STORMS; DATA QUALITY; DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGIC MODEL; DISTRIBUTED MODELING; FLASH FLOOD; FLASH-FLOOD-WARNING; HINDCASTS; HYDROGRAPHS; LEADTIME; MODEL RESULTS; MODEL SIMULATION; NOWCAST; OKLAHOMA; PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; PRECIPITATION FORECAST; SPATIAL SCALE; TEMPORAL FREQUENCY;

FLOOD CONTROL; RESEARCH;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77949290466     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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