Assimilation of stream discharge for flood forecasting: The benefits of accounting for routing time lags

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1887-1900

  Li, Yuan ^a,b   Ryu, Dongryeol ^a   Western, Andrew W ^a   Wang, Q J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

discharge assimilation; ensemble Kalman filter; ensemble Kalman smoother; flood forecasting

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; KALMAN FILTERS; STREAM FLOW; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BACKGROUND PREDICTION; DISCHARGE ASSIMILATIONS; DISTRIBUTED MODELING; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; FLOOD FORECASTING; KALMAN SMOOTHER; STREAMFLOW FORECASTING; SYNTHETIC EXPERIMENTS;

SOIL MOISTURE;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FLOOD FORECASTING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; KALMAN FILTER; RIVER DISCHARGE; SOIL MOISTURE; STREAM; STREAMFLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84877997332     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20169     Document Type: Article

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