Title
Basis for Extending Long-Term Streamflow Forecasts in the Colorado River Basin
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2011
Publication Title
Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
Volume
16
Issue
12
First page number:
1000
Last page number:
1008
Abstract
The National Weather Service (NWS) maintains a collection of computer models used to perform various functions for managing the rivers of the United States. One function of the NWS's river forecast centers is to provide long-term resource forecasts for the main river basins in the United States. By using singular value decomposition (SVD) analysis, the research presented here identifies a new sea surface temperature (SST) index which demonstrates significant, long-lead covariance with streamflow in the Colorado River Basin. This index is compared with other existing climate indices by using the non-parametric rank sum test and by also using the index in a forecasting scenario.
Keywords
Climate; Climatology; Colorado River; Forecasting; Rank sum; Rivers; Rivers—Management; Sea surface temperatures; Singular value decomposition; Streamflow; Watersheds
Disciplines
Civil and Environmental Engineering | Construction Engineering and Management | Environmental Engineering | Structural Engineering
Language
English
Permissions
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Identifier
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0000153
Repository Citation
Lamb, K. W.,
Piechota, T. C.,
Aziz, O. A.,
Tootle, G. A.
(2011).
Basis for Extending Long-Term Streamflow Forecasts in the Colorado River Basin.
Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 16(12),
1000-1008.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0000154