Alternative configurations of quantile regression for estimating predictive uncertainty in water level forecasts for the upper Severn River: A comparison

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3411-3428

  Lopez Lopez P ^a,b,f   Verkade, J S ^b,c,d   Weerts, A H ^b,e   Solomatine, D P ^a,c  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment   (Netherlands)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WATER LEVELS; WATER RESOURCES;

ALTERNATIVE CONFIGURATIONS; JOINT DISTRIBUTIONS; NUMERICAL VERIFICATION; PREDICTIVE DISTRIBUTIONS; PREDICTIVE UNCERTAINTY; QUANTILE REGRESSION TECHNIQUES; RANKED PROBABILITY SKILL SCORES; RELATIVE OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER LEVEL;

SEVERN RIVER [UNITED KINGDOM]; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84906991499     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-18-3411-2014     Document Type: Article

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