Implications of ensemble quantitative precipitation forecast errors on distributed streamflow forecasting

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 69-86

  Mascaro, Giuseppe ^a   Vivoni, Enrique R ^b   Deidda, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BASIN ANALYSIS; DOWNSCALING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HINDCASTING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 77953333451     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JHM1144.1     Document Type: Article

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