Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Gholam abbas Fallah Ghalhari ¹
• Mehdi Asadi ²
• Alireza Entezari ¹

¹ Department of Geography, University of Sabzevari

² Climatology, University Sabzevari

Abstract

Climate classification and identifying the most effective factors and elements of each area is one way of understanding identity of the climate zones. Therefore, to identify Guilan climate mapping new methods such as factor analysis and hierarchical cluster were performed. For this, we used 20 climate variables of the 16weather stations in the study area. Then, using interpolation method, a matrix with dimensions of 20×106 data was obtained. Climate mapping of the province with factor analysis showed that the climate of the province is made up of two factors. These two factors are: humid-rain–wind and temperature–cloudy factors. Results also indicated that these two factors explain 99.44 percent of the variance of the primary variables. The contribution of each factor was 64.49, 34.95 percent respectively. Finally, cluster analysis on two climatic factors identified three climatic regions in the provinces. These three regions are: moderate and humid, mountainous, semi humid and cold.

Keywords

• Climate Classification
• Principle Component Analysis
• Cluster analysis

Main Subjects

• Climatology