# Is bootstrap approach reserved for specific type of data?

Currently, I am working on historic climate variable data of precipitation and temperature. I want to resample my data to find out variability in precipitation and temperature. But I read somewhere that the bootstrap approach only works for hydrologic data for reproducing the historical frequency distribution of streamflow. However, it does not work well for precipitation and temperature data.

Please guide me in this respect.

This should've been a comment but turned into a longer post... I would imagine that it has to do with stationarity of the data series. In my experience, the bootstrap approach has worked well for stationary data. For nonstationary data, there are, however, non-stationary bootstrap procedures (see tsboot and meboot packages in R) which try to incorporate some of the correlation structure into the sampling procedures. There was a nice article discussing some of the dangers of using the block bootstrap which I will try and find / post later.