Bioclimatic classification of Isfahan province using multivariate statistical methods

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1850-1861

  Yaghmaei, L ^a   Soltani, S ^a   Khodagholi, M ^b  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b Isfahan Research Center for Agriculture and Natural Resources   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bioclimatic classification; Cluster analysis; Factor analysis; Isfahan province; Multivariate statistical methods

Indexed keywords

BIOCLIMATIC CLASSIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION METHODS; CLIMATIC REGIONS; CLIMATIC VARIABLES; COLD REGIONS; DOMINANT SPECIES; ECOLOGICAL CONDITIONS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; HIERARCHICAL CLUSTER ANALYSIS; IN-PLANTS; ISFAHAN PROVINCE; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL METHOD; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL METHODS; SUB-HUMID; TOTAL VARIANCE; VEGETATION DISTRIBUTION; WARD'S METHOD;

CLIMATOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; VEGETATION;

MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

BIOCLIMATOLOGY; CLIMATE CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATIC REGION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION;

ASIA; ESFAHAN [ESFAHAN (PRV)]; ESFAHAN [IRAN]; EURASIA; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST;

ARTEMISIA AUCHERI; ARTEMISIA SIEBERI;

EID: 70349878809     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1835     Document Type: Article

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