Sensitivity and uncertainty analysis of mesoscale model downscaled hydro-meteorological variables for discharge prediction

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 4419-4432

  Srivastava, Prashant K ^a   Han, Dawei ^a   Rico Ramirez, Miguel A ^a   Islam, Tanvir ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discharge prediction; Evapotranspiration; Global datasets; Precipitation; Sensitivity analysis; Uncertainty estimation; WRF NOAH LSM

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CATCHMENTS; DATA PROCESSING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RAIN; REACTOR CORES; RESEARCH; RUNOFF; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DISCHARGE PREDICTIONS; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; GENERALIZED LIKELIHOOD UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATION; GLOBAL DATASETS; SENSITIVITY AND UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATION; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING; WRF-NOAH LSM;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CATCHMENT; DATA SET; DISCHARGE; DOWNSCALING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84901939330     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9946     Document Type: Article

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