A stepwise-cluster forecasting approach for monthly streamflows based on climate teleconnections

Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1557-1569

  Fan, Y R ^a   Huang, W ^b   Huang, G H ^a,c   Li, Z ^a   Li, Y P ^c   Wang, X Q ^a   Cheng, G H ^a   Jin, L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d XIAMEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate teleconnection; Data driven; Monthly streamflow prediction; Stepwise cluster analysis; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPLEX NETWORKS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; LINEAR REGRESSION; NEURAL NETWORKS; STREAM FLOW; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DATA DRIVEN; GENERALIZED REGRESSION NEURAL NETWORKS; LEAST SQUARE SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; PROBABILISTIC CHARACTERISTICS; STREAMFLOW PREDICTION; TELECONNECTIONS; UNCERTAINTY;

FORECASTING;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FORECASTING METHOD; PROBABILITY; STREAMFLOW; TELECONNECTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CHINA; HUBEI; XIANGXI RIVER;

EID: 84938415862     PISSN: 14363240     EISSN: 14363259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00477-015-1048-y     Document Type: Article

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