Comprehensive analysis of the climate variability in the eastern Mediterranean. Part I: Map-pattern classification

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1189-1214

  Kostopoulou, E ^a,b   Jones, P D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Circulation patterns; Eastern Mediterranean; Loading threshold; Rotated principal component analysis (RPCA)

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DAILY CIRCULATION PATTERN; DEPRESSIONAL ACTIVITY;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CORRELATION METHODS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL; STATISTICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLIMATIC REGION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (EAST);

EID: 34447650234     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1467     Document Type: Article

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