Articles | Volume 22, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-2057-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-2057-2018
Research article
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03 Apr 2018
Research article |  | 03 Apr 2018

Skilful seasonal forecasts of streamflow over Europe?

Louise Arnal, Hannah L. Cloke, Elisabeth Stephens, Fredrik Wetterhall, Christel Prudhomme, Jessica Neumann, Blazej Krzeminski, and Florian Pappenberger

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This paper presents a new operational forecasting system (driven by atmospheric forecasts), predicting river flow in European rivers for the next 7 months. For the first month only, these river flow forecasts are, on average, better than predictions that do not make use of atmospheric forecasts. Overall, this forecasting system can predict whether abnormally high or low river flows will occur in the next 7 months in many parts of Europe, and could be valuable for various applications.
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