Using large-scale climatic patterns for improving long lead time streamflow forecasts for Gunnison and San Juan River Basins

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1543-1559

  Kalra, Ajay ^a,b   Miller, William P ^c   Lamb, Kenneth W ^d   Ahmad, Sajjad ^a   Piechota, Thomas ^a  

^a Las Vegas   (United States)

^b DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c U S BUREAU OF RECLAMATION   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Forecasting; Oscillations; Streamflow; Support vector machine; Water resource management

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; BACK PROPAGATION ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK (BPANN); CLIMATE VARIABILITY; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; OSCILLATIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); WATERRESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; DIGITAL STORAGE; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; LINEAR REGRESSION; NEURAL NETWORKS; RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT; RESERVOIRS (WATER); STREAM FLOW; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS;

FORECASTING;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BACK PROPAGATION; BASIN MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE VARIATION; FORECASTING METHOD; GEOSTATISTICS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; STAKEHOLDER; STREAMFLOW; WATER PLANNING; WATER RESOURCE;

COLORADO; COLORADO RIVER [NORTH AMERICA]; GUNNISON RIVER; SAN JUAN BASIN [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84877681819     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9236     Document Type: Article

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