Diagnostic verification of hydrometeorological and hydrologic ensembles

Atmospheric Science Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 114-122

  Demargne, Julie ^a,b   Brown, James ^a,b   Liu, Yuqiong ^a,c   Seo, Dong Jun ^a,b   Wu, Limin ^a,d   Toth, Zoltan ^e   Zhu, Yuejian ^f  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c RIVERSIDE TECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

^d Wyle Information Systems   (United States)

^e EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^f CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ensembles; Hydrological forecasting; Probabilistic verification; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; STREAMFLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 77954442710     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1530261X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asl.261     Document Type: Article

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