Long-term precipitation forecast for drought relief using atmospheric circulation factors: A study on the Maharloo basin in Iran

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1995-2006

  Sigaroodi, S K ^a,b   Chen, Q ^a,c   Ebrahimi, S ^a   Nazari, A ^b   Choobin, B ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c NANJING HYDRAULIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; NEURAL NETWORKS; RAIN; WATER MANAGEMENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION FACTOR; CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; MULTI-REGRESSION MODEL; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES; PRECIPITATION FORECAST; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS;

DROUGHT;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; DISASTER RELIEF; DROUGHT; EL NINO; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALINE LAKE; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

ARABIAN SEA; FARS; INDIAN OCEAN; IRAN; MAHARLOO LAKE; PERSIAN GULF;

EID: 84901389068     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-18-1995-2014     Document Type: Article

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