A review of quantitative precipitation forecasts and their use in short- to medium-range streamflow forecasting

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 713-728

  Cuo, Lan ^a   Pagano, Thomas C ^b   Wang, Q J ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ensembles; Forecasting; Numerical weather prediction; Precipitation; Streamflow

Indexed keywords

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; NOWCASTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STREAMFLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 83455255752     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JHM1347.1     Document Type: Review

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