The Delft-FEWS flow forecasting system

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 40, Issue , 2013, Pages 65-77

  Werner, M ^a,b   Schellekens, J ^a   Gijsbers, P ^a   van Dijk, M ^a   van den Akker, O ^a   Heynert, K ^a  

^a DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^b UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Data standards; Flow forecasting; Hydrological modelling; Model integration; Operational hydrology

Indexed keywords

ACCESSING DATA; BUILDING BLOCKES; CLIENT-SERVER TECHNOLOGY; CURRENT GENERATION; DATA STANDARDS; DESKTOP WORKSTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING; FLOW FORECASTING; FORECASTING SYSTEM; HYDROLOGICAL MODELLING; KEY FEATURE; LINKING MODELS; MODEL INTEGRATION; OPERATIONAL FORECASTING; REAL TIME; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES;

FORECASTING; HYDROLOGY;

DATA HANDLING;

DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; FORECASTING METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LITERATURE REVIEW; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84871785961     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2012.07.010     Document Type: Article

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