The sub-climate regions and the sub-precipitation regime regions in Turkey

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 450-451, Issue , 2012, Pages 180-189

  Sahin, Sinan ^a   Kerem Cigizoglu, H ^b  

^a NAMIK KEMAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Climate regions; Hierarchical cluster analysis; Neuro fuzzy clustering; Precipitation regime regions; Turkey

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS PROBLEMS; CLASSICAL APPROACH; CLIMATE REGIONS; CLIMATE TRANSITION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HIERARCHICAL CLUSTER ANALYSIS; IRIS DATA; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; NEURO-FUZZY CLUSTERING; NEURO-FUZZY METHODS; STABILITY TESTS; TURKEY; WARD'S METHOD;

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; METEOROLOGY;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

CLIMATIC REGION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RELATIVE HUMIDITY;

TURKEY;

EID: 84862643678     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.04.062     Document Type: Article

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