Flood forecasting on the Tocantins River using ensemble rainfall forecasts and real-time satellite rainfall estimates

Journal of Flood Risk Management

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 278-288

  Fan, F M ^a   Collischonn, W ^a   Quiroz, K J ^a   Sorribas, M V ^a   Buarque, D C ^a   Siqueira, V A ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Ensemble forecasting; flood control; real time forecasting; satellite rainfall; Tocantins River; TRMM real time

Indexed keywords

DAM; DECISION MAKING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOOD FORECASTING; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; REAL TIME; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STREAMFLOW; TELEMETRY; TRMM;

BRAZIL; TOCANTINS RIVER;

EID: 84930535849     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1753318X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jfr3.12177     Document Type: Article

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