Seasonal Forecasts of Unregulated Inflows into the Murray River, Australia

Water Resources Management

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2747-2769

  Robertson, David E ^a   Wang, Q J ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bayesian joint probability modeling; Forecast verification; Probabilistic forecasting; Seasonal streamflows

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CATCHMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RIVERS; STREAM FLOW;

EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FORECAST VERIFICATIONS; FUTURE CLIMATE; JOINT PROBABILITY; MURRAY RIVER; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTING; SEASONAL FORECASTS; SEASONAL RAINFALL;

FORECASTING;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; FORECASTING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; STREAMFLOW;

AUSTRALIA; MURRAY RIVER;

EID: 84876960055     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-013-0313-4     Document Type: Article

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