PIRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS OF THE ANNUAL PRECIPITATION OF WEST BLACK SEA HYDROLOGICAL BASIN IN TURKEY
IH Özölçer, Berna Aksoy, Hamit Aydin, MI Kömürcü
article (Uluslararası, Hakemli) | Yazar(lar): IH Özölçer, Berna Aksoy, Hamit Aydin, MI Kömürcü | Yıl: 2009 | Dergi/Kurum: FRESENIUS ENVIRONMENTAL BULLETIN | İndeks: WOS.SCI | Anahtar Kelimeler: Black Sea Hydrological Basin, precipitation, Principal Component Analysis, Turkey — Özet: A hydrological regionalization of th
A hydrological regionalization of the Western Black Sea hydrological basin of Turkey is developed based on a multivariate analysis of precipitation records of the 18 (out of 40) meteorological stations from the periods 1929-2004. A regionalization of annual data is carried out using PCA. Precipitation series from 18 gauging stations were chosen to characterize climatic differences in the basin. The PCA indicated that there are 6 climatic regions in the basin.