Summary
The problems of climatic classification are briefly reviewed and the current attempts at classifying climates using multivariate statistical techniques evaluated. The results of a comparative study of three statistical classification procedures applied to Nigerian climatic data are presented to highlight some of the problems involved in the use of multivariate techniques in climatic classification.
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Es werden die Probleme der klimatischen Klassifikation kurz dargelegt und Versuche zur Klassifizierung von Klimaten mit Hilfe von multiplen statistischen Techniken bearbeitet. Die Ergebnisse einer vergleichenden Studie über drei statistische Klassifikationsverfahren mit Anwendung auf nigerianische Klimadaten werden vorgelegt, um einige mit der Anwendung multivariabler Techniken in der Klimaklassifikation verbundene Probleme hervorzuheben.
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Ayoade, J.O. On the use of multivariate techniques in climatic classification and regionalization. Arch. Met. Geoph. Biokl. B. 24, 257–267 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02263458
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