Revisiting climate region definitions via clustering

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1787-1800

  Lund, Robert ^a   Li, Bo ^b  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION STRUCTURES; CLIMATE REGIONS; CLIMATIC ZONES; CLUSTERING METHODS; COVARIATE; DISTANCE METRIC; REFERENCE STATIONS; SEASONAL MEANS; WEATHER STATIONS;

CORRELATION DETECTORS;

AUTOCORRELATION; CLIMATOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 65449166720     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2455.1     Document Type: Article

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