Linking typhoon tracks and spatial rainfall patterns for improving flood lead time predictions over a mesoscale mountainous watershed

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Huang, Jr Chuan ^a   Yu, Cheng Ku ^b   Lee, Jun Yi ^a   Cheng, Lin Wen ^b   Lee, Tsung Yu ^a   Kao, Shuh Ji ^c,d  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHINESE CULTURE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c RESEARCH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES   (Taiwan)

^d XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE AREA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; FLOOD FORECASTING; FLOOD PEAK; HIGH RESOLUTION; LEAD TIME; MESOSCALE; RAINFALL ESTIMATES; RAINFALL PATTERNS; RAINFALL RATES; SPATIAL RAINFALL; STORM EVENTS; TYPHOON RAINFALL; WAVE MODELS;

FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; HURRICANES; LANDFORMS; WATERSHEDS;

RAIN;

FLOOD FORECASTING; LANDSCAPE; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; RAINFALL; RESOLUTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TYPHOON; WATERSHED; WAVE MODELING;

TAIWAN;

EID: 84867029642     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR011508     Document Type: Article

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