A verification on division of hydroclimatic area in China seas using digital characteristic of frequency distribution
Air temperature ; China ; Climatic zone ; Cluster analysis ; Marine hydrology ; Principal components analysis ; Sea ; Surface temperature ; Water temperature
1953-1988 oceanographic data files on the China Seas prepared by the National Marine Data, China, and the 1953-1982 reports of sea surface monthly mean temperature in the East China Sea by the Meteorological Agency, Japan, were used to calculate
the digital characteristics of frequency distribution of sea and air temperature in 153 areas in the China seas. Principal factor analysis and fuzzy cluster ISODATA were used to divide the China hydroclimatic area into 3 climatic zones including 10 climatic