Short lead-time hydrologic ensemble forecasts from numerical weather prediction model ensembles

World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2010: Challenges of Change - Proceedings of the World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2294-2304

  Adams, Thomas ^a   Ostrowski, Joseph ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forecasting; Hydrology; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; ENSEMBLE FORECAST SYSTEMS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; FORECAST SYSTEMS; FORECAST UNCERTAINTY; HYDROLOGIC MODELS; JOINT PROJECTS; LEADTIME; LONG LEADS; METEOROLOGICAL MODELS; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICES; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; RIVER FORECAST CENTERS; SHORT RANGE ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STREAMFLOW PREDICTION; TEMPERATURE FORECASTS; TIME FRAME; UNCERTAINTY SOURCES;

HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WATER; WATER RESOURCES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77954964378     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/41114(371)237     Document Type: Conference Paper

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