Skill of a global seasonal streamflow forecasting system, relative roles of initial conditions and meteorological forcing

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 4687-4699

  Yossef, Naze Candogan ^a,b   Winsemius, Hessel ^b,c   Weerts, Albrecht ^b,d   Van Beek, Rens ^a   Bierkens, Marc F P ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

global seasonal streamflow forecasting system; relative roles of initial conditions and meteorological forcing

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; GROUNDWATER; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SNOW; STREAM FLOW; SURFACE WATERS;

HYDROCLIMATIC CONDITIONS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; METEOROLOGICAL FORCING; METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATION; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY; STREAMFLOW FORECASTING; STREAMFLOW PREDICTION; SURFACE WATER AND GROUNDWATERS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84880933889     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20350     Document Type: Article

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