Decomposition of sources of errors in monthly to seasonal streamflow forecasts in a rainfall-runoff regime

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2470-2483

  Sinha, Tushar ^a   Sankarasubramanian, A ^a   Mazrooei, Amirhossein ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Forecasting; Hindcasts; Hydrology; Model errors; Seasonal forecasting

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PREDICTION; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; HINDCASTING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SEASONAL VARIATION; STREAMFLOW;

EID: 84915748198     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-13-0155.1     Document Type: Article

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