SBMcast - An ensemble nowcasting technique to assess the uncertainty in rainfall forecasts by Lagrangian extrapolation

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 404, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 226-240

  Berenguer, Marc ^a   Sempere Torres, Daniel ^a   Pegram, Geoffrey G S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Probabilistic ensemble nowcasting; Radar Rainfall; Radar based very short term forecasting; Space time structure of rainfall; String of Beads model

Indexed keywords

NOWCASTING; RADAR RAINFALL; RADAR-BASED VERY-SHORT TERM FORECASTING; SPACETIME STRUCTURES; STRING OF BEADS MODEL;

ERRORS; EXTRAPOLATION; FORECASTING; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; RADAR; RUNOFF; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

RAIN;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORECASTING METHOD; HYDROLOGY; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RADAR; RAINFALL; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RESEARCH WORK; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79959274950     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.04.033     Document Type: Article

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