A probabilistic prediction network for hydrological drought identification and environmental flow assessment

Water Resources Research

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 6243-6262

  Liu, Zhiyong ^a   Törnros, Tobias ^a   Menzel, Lucas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

environmental flow assessment; hydrological drought; multivariate; probabilistic prediction network; streamflow

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; FORECASTING; RISK ASSESSMENT; STREAM FLOW; WATER SUPPLY;

CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW ASSESSMENTS; HYDROLOGICAL DROUGHTS; MULTIVARIATE; PROBABILISTIC MODELING; PROBABILISTIC PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE PREDICTION; WATER SUPPLY PLANNING;

COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY;

BASIN; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; NETWORK ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STREAMFLOW; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHED;

CHINA; GERMANY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84981725666     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016WR019106     Document Type: Article

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