Hydrological drought forecasting and skill assessment for the Limpopo River basin, southern Africa

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1695-1711

  Trambauer, P ^a   Werner, M ^a,b   Winsemius, H C ^b   Maskey, S ^a   Dutra, E ^c   Uhlenbrook, S ^a,d  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^c EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; FORECASTING; HYDROLOGY; LOSSES; RESERVOIRS (WATER); RIVERS; STREAM FLOW; WATER RESOURCES; WATERSHEDS;

DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGICAL MODEL; GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELS; HYDROLOGICAL DROUGHTS; HYDROLOGICAL PREDICTION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; OPERATIONAL GUIDANCE; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; STREAMFLOW PREDICTION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DROUGHT; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HUMANITARIAN AID; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; SEASONAL VARIATION; STREAMFLOW; WATER USE;

LIMPOPO BASIN;

EID: 84928036637     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-19-1695-2015     Document Type: Article

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