Characterizing the uncertainty in river stage forecasts conditional on point forecast values

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Yan, Jun ^a   Liao, Gong Yi ^a   Gebremichael, Mekonnen ^a   Shedd, Robert ^b   Vallee, David R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b National Weather Service   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONAL DISTRIBUTION; DETERMINISTIC FORECASTS; NEW HAMPSHIRE; PARAMETRIC DISTRIBUTIONS; PLYMOUTH; PREDICTION INTERVAL; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTS; RIVER LEVELS; RIVER STAGES; SMOOTH FUNCTIONS; STATISTICAL APPROACH; T DISTRIBUTION; UNCERTAINTY INFORMATIONS; WARM SEASONS;

RIVERS;

FORECASTING;

ALGORITHM; DECISION MAKING; FORECASTING METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; RIVER WATER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER LEVEL;

NEW HAMPSHIRE; PEMIGEWASSET RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84871366475     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012WR011818     Document Type: Article

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