An approach for probabilistic forecasting of seasonal turbidity threshold exceedance

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Towler, Erin ^a,b   Rajagopalan, Balaji ^a,c   Summers, R Scott ^a   Yates, David ^b  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FORECASTS; DRINKING WATER SOURCES; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; NON-PARAMETRIC; NONLINEAR FEATURES; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; PRECIPITATION FORECAST; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTING; SEASONAL CLIMATE FORECAST; SEASONAL FORECASTS; THRESHOLD EXCEEDANCE; TURBIDITY VALUES; WATER QUALITY STANDARD; WATER UTILITY;

CLIMATOLOGY; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; POTABLE WATER; PROBABILITY; STREAM FLOW; TURBIDITY; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

WATER RESOURCES;

CLIMATOLOGY; DRINKING WATER; SEASONALITY; STREAMFLOW; TURBIDITY; WATER QUALITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

PACIFIC NORTHWEST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77954394693     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR007834     Document Type: Article

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