Regionalization of snowfall frequency and trends over the contiguous United States

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 35, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 4348-4358

  Kluver, Daria ^a   Leathers, Daniel ^b  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Principal components analysis; Quantile regression; Regionalization; Snow frequency; Snowfall; Trends

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; SNOW;

CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXTREME FREQUENCIES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS; QUANTILE REGRESSION; REGIONAL VARIATION; REGIONALIZATION; TELECONNECTION PATTERNS; TRENDS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGIONALIZATION; SNOW; TELECONNECTION; TREND ANALYSIS;

OHIO VALLEY [PENNSYLVANIA-OHIO]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84957934527     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.4292     Document Type: Article

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