Defining climatological seasons using radially constrained clustering

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 1-5

  Cannon, Alex J ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; STATISTICAL METHODS; STRATIGRAPHY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CLIMATOLOGICAL SEASONS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; RADIALLY CONSTRAINED CLUSTERING;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYCLICITY; SEASONALITY; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 25444499232     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023410     Document Type: Article

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