A multivariate approach to the evaluation of the climatic regions and climatic resources of China - R. McGregor, G. (Elsevier)
A climatic regionalization of China is developed based on the multivariate analysis of temperature and precipitation data for 279 locations. Principal components for the description of the spatial variation of China's climate resource are derived by principal component analysis. The principal components for climate description are temperature, winter moisture, midsummer moisture and seasonality. Agglomerative clustering of the four principal component scores for the individual locations produced 25 homogeneous spatial clusters or climate regions. A geographical nomenclature for the climate regions is presented. A comparison is made of the statistical climatic regionalization developed in this study with existing.empirical classifications of China's climate, and the application of the statistical regionalization to climate resource assessment is discussed.
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