Long-range forecasting of colorado streamflows based on hydrologic, atmospheric, and oceanic data

Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 508-520

  Salas, Jose D ^a   Fu, Chongjin ^a   Rajagopalan, Balaji ^b  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric oceanic predictors; CCA; Flow prediction; Forecasting streamflows; PCA; Stochastic analysis

Indexed keywords

CANONICAL CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CCA; CLIMATIC FLUCTUATIONS; CROSS CORRELATIONS; FLOW PREDICTION; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT; LONG-RANGE FORECASTING; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; PCA; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; STOCHASTIC ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW FORECASTING; TIME-SCALES; WATER RESOURCES VARIABILITY; WESTERN UNITED STATES;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; LINEAR REGRESSION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SNOW; STREAM FLOW; WATER RESOURCES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; LONG RANGE FORECAST; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RIVER; SEASONALITY; STOCHASTICITY; STREAMFLOW; TIMESCALE;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79958709512     PISSN: 10840699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0000343     Document Type: Article

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