Principal component analysis of Belgian rainfall

Auteurs :
SNEYERS, R.
VANDIEPENBEECK, M.
VANLIERDE, R.

Description :
Four principal components are found to be significant, explaining 99.8 % of the total variance. Their climatic significance is to be found respectively in (1) the general atmospheric circulation, (2) the air mass instability in summer, (3) the neighbourhood of the sea, (4) the mean pressure gradient. At the computational level, it is also shown how to operate with a large correlation matrix and a small number of observations. - (Authors).


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Archives for meteorology, geophysics, and bioclimatology. Series B, Climatology, environmental meteorology, radiation research, issn : 0066-6424, 1989, vol. 39, p. 199-204

Date :
1989

Editeur :
Pays édition : Autriche, New York, NY ; Wien, Springer