Seasonal soil moisture drought prediction over Europe using the North American Multi-Model Ensemble (NMME)

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2329-2344

  Thober, Stephan ^a   Kumar, Rohini ^a   Sheffield, Justin ^b   Mai, Juliane ^a   Schäfer, David ^a   Samaniego, Luis ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PREDICTION; SOIL MOISTURE;

EUROPE;

EID: 84950148888     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-15-0053.1     Document Type: Article

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