Climate classifications: The value of unsupervised clustering

Procedia Computer Science

Volumn 9, Issue , 2012, Pages 897-906

  Zscheischler, Jakob ^a,b   Mahecha, Miguel D ^a   Harmeling, Stefan ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clustering; K means; K ppen Geiger climate classification; Multivariate statistics; PCA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875844173     PISSN: 18770509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2012.04.096     Document Type: Conference Paper

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