Principal components-based regionalization of the Saudi Arabian climate

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2555-2573

  Almazroui, Mansour ^a   Dambul, Ramzah ^a   Islam, M Nazrul ^a   Jones, P D ^a,b  

^a KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climatic classification; Climatology; Regionalization; Saudi Arabia

Indexed keywords

TOPOGRAPHY;

CLASSIFICATION METHODS; CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; ECONOMIC PLANNING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS; REGIONALIZATION; SAUDI ARABIA; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGIONALIZATION; TOPOGRAPHY;

SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 84937073408     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.4139     Document Type: Article

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