A strategy to overcome adverse effects of autoregressive updating of streamflow forecasts

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-15

  Li, M ^a   Wang, Q J ^a   Bennett, J C ^a   Robertson, D E ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; FORECASTING; HYDROLOGY; STREAM FLOW;

ADVERSE EFFECT; AUTO REGRESSIVE MODELS; AUTO-REGRESSIVE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELS; STAND -ALONE; STREAMFLOW FORECAST; STREAMFLOW FORECASTING;

ERRORS;

FORECASTING METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; STREAMFLOW;

EID: 84920809106     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-19-1-2015     Document Type: Article

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