Multi-site, multivariate weather generator using maximum entropy bootstrap

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 44, Issue 11-12, 2015, Pages 3431-3448

  Srivastav, Roshan K ^a   Simonovic, Slobodan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Climatology; Maximum entropy; Multivariate multisite; Stochastic; Weather generator

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939891871     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2157-x     Document Type: Article

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