Ensemble forecasts of monthly catchment rainfall out to long lead times by post-processing coupled general circulation model output

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 519, Issue PD, 2014, Pages 2920-2931

  Schepen, Andrew ^a   Wang, Q J ^b  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Ensembles; Forecasting; Post processing; Rainfall

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CATCHMENTS; FORECASTING; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN; RUNOFF; STREAM FLOW; TIME SERIES;

BAYESIAN; COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; ENSEMBLES; FORECASTING TIME SERIES; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; POST PROCESSING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TIME SERIES FORECASTS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATOLOGY; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STREAMFLOW; TIME SERIES;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84918826436     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.03.017     Document Type: Article

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