Downscaling precipitation or bias-correcting streamflow? Some implications for coupled general circulation model (CGCM)-based ensemble seasonal hydrologic forecast

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Yuan, Xing ^a   Wood, Eric F ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; DOWN-SCALING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; FORCINGS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROLOGIC FORECASTING; HYDROLOGIC MODELING; HYDROLOGIC MODELS; RANK HISTOGRAMS; RANKED PROBABILITY SKILL SCORES; SKILL SCORE; STREAMFLOW FORECAST;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STREAM FLOW;

FORECASTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE FORCING; DOWNSCALING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HISTOGRAM; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONALITY; STREAMFLOW;

EID: 84871377292     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012WR012256     Document Type: Article

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