Numerical simulation of 2010 Pakistan flood in the Kabul river basin by using lagged ensemble rainfall forecasting

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 193-211

  Ushiyama, Tomoki ^a   Sayama, Takahirocc ^a   Tatebe, Yuya ^a   Fujiokacc, Susumu ^a   Fukami, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a PUBLIC WORKS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flood events; Hindcasts; Numerical weather prediction forecasting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894038153     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-13-011.1     Document Type: Article

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