Assessment of the potential forecasting skill of a global hydrological model in reproducing the occurrence of monthly flow extremes

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 4233-4246

  Candogan Yossef, N ^a,b   Van Beek, L P H ^a   Kwadijk, J C J ^b   Bierkens, M F P ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b DELTARES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIAS CORRECTION; CLIMATIC ZONE; CONTINGENCY TABLE; DATA SETS; DOWN-SCALING; FORECASTING SKILL; GLOBAL SCALE; HYDROGRAPHS; HYDROLOGICAL EXTREMES; HYDROLOGICAL FORECASTING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; LARGE RIVERS; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; MODEL SKILL; MONTHLY FLOW; REANALYSIS; SEASONAL FORECASTING; SIMULATED DISCHARGES; SKILL SCORE; STREAMFLOW RECORDS; WATER BALANCE;

CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; FLOODS;

FORECASTING;

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DATA SET; DISCHARGE; DOWNSCALING; DROUGHT; EXTREME EVENT; FLOODING; FORECASTING METHOD; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HYDROGRAPH; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MODEL TEST; RIVER BASIN; STREAMFLOW; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER BUDGET;

EID: 84869423169     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-16-4233-2012     Document Type: Article

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