Incorporating reanalysis-based short-term forecasts from a regional climate model in an irrigation scheduling optimization problem

Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management

Volumn 140, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 699-713

  Hejazi, Mohamad I ^a,b   Cai, Ximing ^b   Yuan, Xing ^c,d   Liang, Xin Zhong ^d,e,f   Kumar, Praveen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ILLINOIS STATE WATER SURVEY   (United States)

^e Bldg 142   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias correction; Dynamic downscaling; Irrigation scheduling; Optimization; Regional climate model; Weather forecast

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; IRRIGATION; OPTIMIZATION; PROFITABILITY; RAIN; SCHEDULING; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN; WIND;

BIAS CORRECTION; DYNAMIC DOWNSCALING; IRRIGATION SCHEDULING; OPERATIONAL FORECASTING; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING (RCM); SIMULATION OPTIMIZATION; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; CORRECTION; DOWNSCALING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HUMIDITY; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; MAPPING METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SOLAR RADIATION; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

ILLINOIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84928976464     PISSN: 07339496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0000365     Document Type: Article

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