Early warning of drought in Europe using the monthly ensemble system from ECMWF

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 3273-3286

  Lavaysse, C ^a   Vogt, J ^a   Pappenberger, F ^b  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALLOONS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; DROUGHT; FORECASTING;

CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; ENSEMBLE SYSTEMS; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTS; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; SEASONAL FORECASTS; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX; TEMPORAL PATTERN;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT STRESS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; INDEX METHOD; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EUROPE;

EID: 84938414003     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-19-3273-2015     Document Type: Article

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