A new statistical methodology for classification of sky luminance distributions based on scan data

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 86, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 261-277

  Markou, Marina T ^a   Bartzokas, Aristides ^a   Kambezidis, Harry D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cluster Analysis; Factor Analysis; Multivariate statistical methods; Scan luminance data; Sky luminance distribution

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ENGLAND; LUMINANCE; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FACTOR ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL METHODS; SKY LUMINANCE DISTRIBUTION;

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS;

CLEAR SKY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 35648990651     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2007.06.001     Document Type: Article

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