Climate index weighting of ensemble streamflow forecasts using a simple Bayesian approach

Water Resources Research

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 7382-7400

  Bradley, A Allen ^a   Habib, Mohamed ^a   Schwartz, Stuart S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Baltimore County   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian; climate oscillation; ensemble forecasting; ENSO; streamflow

Indexed keywords

BALLOONS; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; FORECASTING; STREAM FLOW;

BAYESIAN; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ENSO; HYDROLOGIC CONDITIONS; HYDROLOGIC FORECASTING; POSTERIOR DISTRIBUTIONS; STREAMFLOW FORECASTING;

CLIMATOLOGY;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FUTURE PROSPECT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; STREAMFLOW;

EID: 84944441272     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014WR016811     Document Type: Article

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