Climate regionalization and rotation of principal components

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 1-25

  White, Dale ^a,d   Richman, Michael ^b,d   Yarnal, Brent ^c,d  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS STATE WATER SURVEY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate regionalization; Eigenvectors; Locational consistency; Oblique rotation; Orthogonal rotation; Pattern analysis; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE REGIONALISATION; EIGENVECTOR; LOCATIONAL CONSISTENCY; OBLIQUE ROTATION; ORTHOGONAL ROTATION; PATTERN ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 0026050238     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3370110102     Document Type: Article

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