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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-6257-2018
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-6257-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Evaluating post-processing approaches for monthly and seasonal streamflow forecasts
Fitsum Woldemeskel
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Bureau of Meteorology, VIC, Melbourne, Australia
David McInerney
School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, University
of Adelaide, SA, Australia
Julien Lerat
Bureau
of Meteorology, ACT, Canberra, Australia
Mark Thyer
School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, University
of Adelaide, SA, Australia
Dmitri Kavetski
School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, University
of Adelaide, SA, Australia
School
of Engineering, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia
Daehyok Shin
Bureau of Meteorology, VIC, Melbourne, Australia
Narendra Tuteja
Bureau
of Meteorology, ACT, Canberra, Australia
George Kuczera
School
of Engineering, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia
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- Subselection of seasonal ensemble precipitation predictions for East Africa C. Heinrich‐Mertsching et al.
- Towards robust seasonal streamflow forecasts in mountainous catchments: impact of calibration metric selection in hydrological modeling D. Araya et al.
- Improving medium-range streamflow forecasts over South Korea with a dual-encoder transformer model D. Lee & K. Ahn
- A Bayesian Hierarchical Framework for Postprocessing Daily Streamflow Simulations across a River Network Á. Ossandón et al.
- How to assess climate change impact models: uncertainty analysis of streamflow statistics via approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) J. Romero-Cuellar & F. Francés
- A surrogate-aided approach for accelerated Bayesian calibration of hydrologic models R. Arabzadeh et al.
- An error model for long-range ensemble forecasts of ephemeral rivers J. Bennett et al.
- A robust approach for calibrating a daily rainfall-runoff model to monthly streamflow data J. Lerat et al.
- Hybrid Hydrological Forecasting Through a Physical Model and a Weather-Informed Transformer Model: A Case Study in Greek Watershed H. Ampas et al.
- Exploring the role of the long short‐term memory model in improving multi‐step ahead reservoir inflow forecasting X. Luo et al.
- An R package to partition observation data used for model development and evaluation to achieve model generalizability Y. Ji et al.
- Probabilistic prediction of the time to hard freeze using seasonal weather forecasts and survival time methods T. Roksvåg et al.
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Short summary
This paper evaluates several schemes for post-processing monthly and seasonal streamflow forecasts using the Australian Bureau of Meteorology's streamflow forecasting system. Through evaluation across 300 catchments, the best-performing scheme has been identified, which is found to substantially improve important aspects of the forecast quality. This finding is significant because the improved forecasts help water managers and users of the service to make better-informed decisions.
This paper evaluates several schemes for post-processing monthly and seasonal streamflow...