Maximum entropy methods for generating simulated rainfall

Numerical Algebra, Control and Optimization

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 233-256

  Piantadosi, Julia ^a   Howlett, Phil ^a   Borwein, Jonathan ^b   Henstridge, John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Maximum entropy methods; Multi dimensional copulas; Multiply stochastic hyper matrices; Rainfall simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892599544     PISSN: 21553289     EISSN: 21553297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/naco.2012.2.233     Document Type: Article

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