A component-resampling approach for estimating probability distributions from small forecast ensembles

Climatic Change

Volumn 76, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 149-168

  Dettinger, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATOLOGICAL MODELING; COMPONENT-RESAMPLING APPROACH; DYNAMIC RELATIONS; MULTI-EMISSION-SCENARIOS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

CLIMATOLOGY; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 33744950321     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-005-9001-6     Document Type: Article

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