Multisite probabilistic forecasting of seasonal flows for streams with zero value occurrences

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Wang, Q J ^a   Robertson, D E ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; BAYESIAN; CENSORED DATA; JOINT PROBABILITY; MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION; MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS; MODELING APPROACH; MULTI-SITE; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTING; QUEENSLAND; RIVER CATCHMENT; SEASONAL FORECASTING; STREAMFLOW FORECASTING; TEST APPLICATIONS; ZERO FLOW; ZERO VALUES;

CATCHMENTS; STREAM FLOW; WATER MANAGEMENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CATCHMENT; FLOW MODELING; FORECASTING METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEASONALITY; STREAMFLOW;

AUSTRALIA; BURDEKIN BASIN; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 79952232516     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009333     Document Type: Article

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