Precipitation forecasts for rainfall runoff predictions. A case study in poorly gauged Ribb and Gumara catchments, upper Blue Nile, Ethiopia

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 61-62, Issue , 2013, Pages 43-51

  Seyoum, Mesgana ^a   van Andel, Schalk Jan ^b   Xuan, Yunqing ^c   Amare, Kibreab ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^c SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ensemble Prediction System (EPS); Flow prediction; MM5; Precipitation forecast

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CATCHMENTS; RUNOFF; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BLUE NILE; CASE-STUDIES; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEM; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEMS; FLOW PREDICTION; HYDROLOGIC MODELS; MM5; PEAK FLOWS; PRECIPITATION FORECAST; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECAST;

RAIN;

CATCHMENT; DOWNSCALING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HYDROGRAPH; PEAK FLOW; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

BLUE NILE [NILE RIVER]; NILE RIVER;

EID: 84879844350     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2013.05.005     Document Type: Article

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