Seasonal hydrological forecasts for watersheds over the southeastern United States for the boreal summer and fall seasons

Earth Interactions

Volumn 17, Issue 25, 2013, Pages 1-22

  Bastola, Satish ^a   Misra, Vasubandhu ^a   Li, Haiqin ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ensemble streamflow prediction; Rainfall runoff model; Seasonal climate forecast

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; RAIN; RUNOFF; STREAM FLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATERSHEDS;

FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY; HYDROLOGICAL PREDICTION; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SEASONAL CLIMATE FORECAST; SEASONAL CLIMATE PREDICTION; STREAMFLOW PREDICTION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AUTUMN; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; STREAMFLOW; SUMMER; WATERSHED;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84888385414     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: 10873562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2013EI000519.1     Document Type: Article

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