Evaluation of numerical weather prediction model precipitation forecasts for short-term streamflow forecasting purpose

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1913-1931

  Shrestha, D L ^a   Robertson, D E ^a   Wang, Q J ^a   Pagano, T C ^b   Hapuarachchi, H A P ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; PRECIPITATION FORECAST; SAMPLING UNCERTAINTIES; SOUTHEAST AUSTRALIA; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS; STREAMFLOW FORECASTING; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE MODELS; EARTH (PLANET); FLOODS; LASERS; RAIN; RUNOFF; STREAM FLOW; WEATHER FORECASTING;

QUALITY CONTROL;

CATCHMENT; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RAINGAUGE; RESOLUTION; STREAMFLOW; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AUSTRALASIA;

EID: 84879122274     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-17-1913-2013     Document Type: Article

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