Seasonal forecasting of global hydrologic extremes : System development and evaluation over GEWEX basins

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 96, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1895-1912

  Yuan, Xing ^a,b   Roundy, Joshua K ^a   Wood, Eric F ^a   Sheffield, Justin ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; METEOROLOGY;

HYDROLOGIC EXTREMES; HYDROLOGIC FORECASTING; MULTI-MODEL; RIVER BASINS; SEASONAL FORECASTING; SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84950146759     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00003.1     Document Type: Article

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