Wavelet-based time series bootstrap model for multidecadal streamflow simulation using climate indicators

Water Resources Research

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 4061-4077

  Erkyihun, Solomon Tassew ^a   Rajagopalan, Balaji ^a,b   Zagona, Edith ^a   Lall, Upmanu ^c   Nowak, Kenneth ^d  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^d U S BUREAU OF RECLAMATION   (United States)

Author keywords

block K NN; climate indices; conditional streamflow simulation; wavelet

Indexed keywords

MOTION COMPENSATION; NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; STREAM FLOW; TIME SERIES; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WAVELET DECOMPOSITION;

BLOCK K-NN; CLIMATE INDEX; MULTI-DECADAL TIME SCALE; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; STOCHASTIC SIMULATIONS; STOCHASTIC STREAMFLOW; STREAMFLOW SIMULATIONS; WAVELET;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; BOOTSTRAPPING; CLIMATE SIGNAL; HYDROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; RECONSTRUCTION; SIMULATION; STREAMFLOW; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ARGENTINA; ARIZONA; COLORADO BASIN [ARGENTINA]; LEES FERRY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84976467050     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016WR018696     Document Type: Article

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