A System for Continuous Hydrological Ensemble Forecasting (SCHEF) to lead times of 9days

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 519, Issue PD, 2014, Pages 2832-2846

  Bennett, James C ^a   Robertson, David E ^a   Shrestha, Durga Lal ^a   Wang, Q J ^a   Enever, David ^b   Hapuarachchi, Prasantha ^b   Tuteja, Narendra K ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ensemble forecasting; Ensemble verification; Hydrological forecasting; Numerical weather prediction

Indexed keywords

ERROR CORRECTION; RAIN; RIVERS; STREAM FLOW; WATER MANAGEMENT;

BUREAU OF METEOROLOGIES; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FORECAST UNCERTAINTY; HYDROLOGICAL FORECASTING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL PROCESS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84918823474     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.08.010     Document Type: Article

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