Functional clustering for Italian climate zones identification (Articolo in rivista)

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  • Functional clustering for Italian climate zones identification (Articolo in rivista) (literal)
Anno
  • 2013-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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  • 10.1007/s00704-012-0801-0 (literal)
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  • Di Giuseppe, Edmondo; Jona-Lasinio, Giovanni; Esposito, Stanislao; Pasqui, Massimiliano (2013)
    Functional clustering for Italian climate zones identification
    in Theoretical and applied climatology
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  • Di Giuseppe, Edmondo; Jona-Lasinio, Giovanni; Esposito, Stanislao; Pasqui, Massimiliano (literal)
Pagina inizio
  • 39 (literal)
Pagina fine
  • 54 (literal)
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  • 114 (literal)
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  • 1-2 (literal)
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  • CRA-CMA; CNR-IBIMET; Univ.LaSapienza (literal)
Titolo
  • Functional clustering for Italian climate zones identification (literal)
Abstract
  • This work presents a functional clustering procedure applied to meteorological time series. Our proposal combines time series interpolation with smoothing penalized B-spline and the partitioning around medoids clustering algorithm. Our final goal is to obtain homogeneous climate zones of Italy. We compare this approach to standard methods based on a combination of principal component analysis and Cluster Analysis (CA) and we discuss it in relation to other functional clustering approaches based on Fourier analysis and CA. We show that a functional approach is simpler than the standard methods from a methodological and interpretability point of view. Indeed, it becomes natural to find a clear connection between mathematical results and physical variability mechanisms. We discuss how the choice of the basis expansion (splines, Fourier) affects the analysis and propose some comments on their use. The basis for classification is formed by monthly values of temperature and precipitation recorded during the period 1971-2000 over 95 and 94 Italian monitoring stations, respectively. An assessment based on climatic patterns is presented to prove the consistency of the clustering and a comparison of results obtained with different methods is used to judge the functional data approach. © 2012 Springer-Verlag Wien. (literal)
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