Post-processing rainfall forecasts from numerical weather prediction models for short-term streamflow forecasting

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 3587-3603

  Robertson, D E ^a   Shrestha, D L ^a   Wang, Q J ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECAST PROBABILITIES; FORECAST UNCERTAINTY; JOINT DISTRIBUTIONS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; RAINFALL PREDICTION; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL CORRELATION; STREAMFLOW FORECASTING;

CATCHMENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RAIN; STREAM FLOW;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CATCHMENT; CORRELATION; FORECASTING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; RAINFALL; STREAMFLOW;

EID: 84884859040     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-17-3587-2013     Document Type: Article

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