Impact forecasting to support emergency management of natural hazards

B Merz, C Kuhlicke, M Kunz, M Pittore… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Forecasting and early warning systems are important investments to protect lives, properties,
and livelihood. While early warning systems are frequently used to predict the magnitude …

The quiet revolution of numerical weather prediction

P Bauer, A Thorpe, G Brunet - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Advances in numerical weather prediction represent a quiet revolution because they have
resulted from a steady accumulation of scientific knowledge and technological advances …

Generating ensemble streamflow forecasts: A review of methods and approaches over the past 40 years

M Troin, R Arsenault, AW Wood, F Brissette, JL Martel - 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Ensemble forecasting applied to the field of hydrology is currently an established area of
research embracing a broad spectrum of operational situations. This work catalogs the …

The role of weather radar in rainfall estimation and its application in meteorological and hydrological modelling—A review

Z Sokol, J Szturc, J Orellana-Alvear, J Popova… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Radar-based rainfall information has been widely used in hydrological and meteorological
applications, as it provides data with a high spatial and temporal resolution that improve …

Benchmarking observational uncertainties for hydrology: rainfall, river discharge and water quality

H McMillan, T Krueger, J Freer - Hydrological Processes, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
This review and commentary sets out the need for authoritative and concise information on
the expected error distributions and magnitudes in observational data. We discuss the …

A review on statistical postprocessing methods for hydrometeorological ensemble forecasting

W Li, Q Duan, C Miao, A Ye, W Gong… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Computer simulation models have been widely used to generate hydrometeorological
forecasts. As the raw forecasts contain uncertainties arising from various sources, including …

[HTML][HTML] The science of NOAA's operational hydrologic ensemble forecast service

J Demargne, L Wu, SK Regonda… - Bulletin of the …, 2014 - journals.ametsoc.org
Brown, JD, 2013: Verification of temperature, precipitation and streamflow forecasts from the
NWS Hydrologic Ensemble Forecast Service (HEFS): Medium-range forecasts with forcing …

Uncertainties in COSMO-DE precipitation forecasts introduced by model perturbations and variation of lateral boundaries

C Gebhardt, SE Theis, M Paulat, ZB Bouallègue - Atmospheric Research, 2011 - Elsevier
As a first step towards a convection-permitting ensemble prediction system (EPS), this study
explores the use of perturbation methods within the numerical weather prediction (NWP) …

Sensitivity analysis of the hyperparameters of an ensemble Kalman filter application on a semi-distributed hydrological model for streamflow forecasting

B Sabzipour, R Arsenault, M Troin, JL Martel… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Data Assimilation (DA) is an important step for improving prediction accuracy and real-time
correction of hydrological models for operational forecasting purposes. The Ensemble …

Visualizing probabilistic flood forecast information: expert preferences and perceptions of best practice in uncertainty communication

F Pappenberger, E Stephens, J Thielen… - Hydrological …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The aim of this article is to improve the communication of the probabilistic flood forecasts
generated by hydrological ensemble prediction systems (HEPS) by understanding …