A multisite seasonal ensemble streamflow forecasting technique

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Bracken, Cameron ^a,b   Rajagopalan, Balaji ^b,c   Prairie, James ^c  

^a HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLORADO BASIN RIVER FORECAST CENTERS; COLORADO RIVER BASIN; DISAGGREGATION TECHNIQUES; EFFICIENT PLANNING; LEAD TIME; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; MULTI-SITE; NON-PARAMETRIC; OPERATIONAL MODEL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT REGRESSION; RESOURCE CONSERVATION; RIVER NETWORK; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SPATIAL LOCATION; SPRING SEASON; STREAMFLOW FORECAST; STREAMFLOW FORECASTING; STREAMFLOW PREDICTION;

CONSERVATION; GAGES; NATURAL RESOURCES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STREAM FLOW; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

FORECASTING;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW; WATER RESOURCE;

COLORADO BASIN [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 79952221259     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR007965     Document Type: Article

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