The effect of reference climatology on global flood forecasting

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1131-1145

  Hirpa, Feyera A ^a   Salamon, Peter ^a   Alfieri, Lorenzo ^a   Thielen del Pozo, Jutta ^a   Zsoter, Ervin ^b   Pappenberger, Florian ^b,c,d  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

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

^c HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ensembles; Forecasting; Hydrologic models; Land surface model; Models and modeling; Operational forecasting; Probability forecasts models distribution

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FLOOD FORECASTING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LAND SURFACE; PROBABILITY; RIVER BASIN; STREAMFLOW;

EID: 84963623004     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-15-0044.1     Document Type: Article

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