An assessment of climatological synoptic typing by principal component analysis and kmeans clustering

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 98, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 361-373

  Cuell, Charles ^a   Bonsal, Barrie ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EIGENVALUE; GEOPOTENTIAL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 69949107589     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-009-0119-8     Document Type: Article

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