Comparison of classification methods for the divisions of wet/dry climate regions in Northwest China

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2163-2174

  Geng, Qingling ^a,b,c   Wu, Pute ^a,b,c   Zhao, Xining ^a,b,c   Wang, Yubao ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

^b NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c National Engineering Research Center for Water Saving Irrigation at Yangling   (China)

Author keywords

Aridity index; Classification; Data driven; Factor cluster analysis; Northwest China; Rule driven; Wet dry climate

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); METEOROLOGY;

ARIDITY INDEX; DATA-DRIVEN; FACTOR-CLUSTER ANALYSIS; NORTHWEST CHINA; RULE-DRIVEN; WET/DRY CLIMATE;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

ARIDITY; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATIC REGION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FACTOR ANALYSIS;

CHINA;

EID: 84901844406     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3827     Document Type: Article

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