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Articles | Volume 26, issue 5
Articles | Volume 26, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-1389-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-1389-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 26, issue 5
Research article
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14 Mar 2022
Research article |  | 14 Mar 2022

Opportunities for seasonal forecasting to support water management outside the tropics

Leah A. Jackson-Blake, François Clayer, Elvira de Eyto, Andrew S. French, María Dolores Frías, Daniel Mercado-Bettín, Tadhg Moore, Laura Puértolas, Russell Poole, Karsten Rinke, Muhammed Shikhani, Leon van der Linden, and Rafael Marcé

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We explore, together with stakeholders, whether seasonal forecasting of water quantity, quality, and ecology can help support water management at five case study sites, primarily in Europe. Reliable forecasting, a season in advance, has huge potential to improve decision-making. However, managers were reluctant to use the forecasts operationally. Key barriers were uncertainty and often poor historic performance. The importance of practical hands-on experience was also highlighted.
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