Toward a reliable prediction of seasonal forecast uncertainty: Addressing model and initial condition uncertainty with ensemble data assimilation and Sequential Bayesian Combination

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 519, Issue PD, 2014, Pages 2967-2977

  DeChant, Caleb M ^a   Moradkhani, Hamid ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Ensemble streamflow prediction; Multi modeling; Streamflow forecasting

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; ERRORS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STREAM FLOW; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE DATA ASSIMILATION; INITIAL CONDITION UNCERTAINTIES; MULTI-MODELING; PREDICTIVE DISTRIBUTIONS; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTS; STREAMFLOW FORECASTING; STREAMFLOW PREDICTION;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORECASTING METHOD; METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; STREAMFLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84918841653     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.05.045     Document Type: Article

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