Application of a medium-range global hydrologic probabilistic forecast scheme to the Ohio River basin

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 425-446

  Voisin, Nathalie ^a,d   Pappenberger, Florian ^b   Lettenmaier, Dennis P ^a   Buizza, Roberto ^b   Schaake, John C ^c  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ensembles; Flood events; Forecast verification; Forecasting; Hydrologic models; Land surface model

Indexed keywords

ENSEMBLES; FLOOD EVENTS; FORECAST VERIFICATION; HYDROLOGIC MODELS; LAND SURFACE MODELS;

CATCHMENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; RUNOFF; WATERSHEDS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FLOOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LAND SURFACE; PROBABILITY; RUNOFF;

OHIO RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052415373     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-10-05032.1     Document Type: Article

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