Spatial and Temporal Variations of Climate in Europe

Vladimir Kossobokov, Jean-Louis Le Mouël, Claude Allègre

Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France.
Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.

DOI: 10.4236/acs.2012.24052                

Abstract

Temperature series of the original individual measurements of the minimum and maximum daily temperatures from 24 stations located in different regions of Europe are considered with the objective of studying the stability or the variability of the “climate” in time and space. The patterns of the temperature statistics, the shapes of probability density functions, in particular, at different places and times allow comparisons based on the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, the Shannon entropy, and cluster analysis, used separately or in combination for the purposes of quantitative climate classification.

Keywords

Daily Air Temperature; Climate; Classification; Empirical Distribution Function; Entropy; Cluster Analysis

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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