Simultaneous analysis of climatic trends in multiple variables: An example of application of multivariate statistical methods

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 469-484

  Huth, Radan ^a   Pokorná, Lucie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Climatic trends; Cluster analysis; Czech Republic; Principal component analysis; Trend consistency

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; CORRELATION METHODS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE ELEMENTS; CLOUDINESS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE METHODS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 17144419661     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1146     Document Type: Article

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