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In the present work, seven statistical-routing models have been developed and applied to the Medjerdah River (Tunisia) for forecasting the extreme flood events at Jendouba for different forecasting horizons. The performance of the models are characterized by statistical measures of precision, peak error and peak delay between the measured and forecast flow and their variations. Due to the important number of criteria, a multi-criteria analysis is used to rank the models according to four forecasting horizons. The mixed models seem to be the best ones for short (2–4 h) as well as long (6–8 h) forecasting horizons.
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Masmoudi, M., Habaieb, H. The performance of some real-time statistical flood forecasting models seen through multicriteria analysis. Water Resour Manage 7, 57–67 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00872242
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