An example of using obliquely rotated principal components to detect circulation types over Europe
Principal component analysis (PCA) is applied to selected gridded 500 hPa height data over Europe, the stratification of which is known in advance, in order to evaluate its ability to find dominating circulation types. Four different solutions were considered: unrotated, orthogonally rotated and obl...
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| Language: | English |
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Borntraeger
1993-12-01
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| Series: | Meteorologische Zeitschrift |
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/metz/2/1993/285 |