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Quantifying and reducing flood forecast uncertainty by the CHUP-BMA method
Zhen Cui
State Key Laboratory of Water Resources Engineering and Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
State Key Laboratory of Water Resources Engineering and Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Hua Chen
State Key Laboratory of Water Resources Engineering and Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Dedi Liu
State Key Laboratory of Water Resources Engineering and Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Yanlai Zhou
State Key Laboratory of Water Resources Engineering and Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Chong-Yu Xu
Department of Geoscience, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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Short summary
Ensemble forecasting facilitates reliable flood forecasting and warning. This study couples the copula-based hydrologic uncertainty processor (CHUP) with Bayesian model averaging (BMA) and proposes the novel CHUP-BMA method of reducing inflow forecasting uncertainty of the Three Gorges Reservoir. The CHUP-BMA avoids the normal distribution assumption in the HUP-BMA and considers the constraint of initial conditions, which can improve the deterministic and probabilistic forecast performance.
Ensemble forecasting facilitates reliable flood forecasting and warning. This study couples the...
