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Differentiation between "Bomb" and Ordinary U.S. East Coast Cyclogenesis using Principal Component Analysis and K-means Cluster Analysis

The purpose of this research is to identify whether synoptic patterns and variables were statistically significantly different between East Coast United States track bomb and ordinary cyclogenesis. The differentiation of East Coast track bomb and ordinary cyclogenesis was completed through the utility of the principal component analysis, a K-means cluster analysis, a subjective composite analysis, and permutation tests. The principal component analysis determined that there were three leading modes of variability within the bomb and ordinary composites. The K-means cluster analysis was used to cluster these leading patterns of variability into three distinct clusters for the bomb and ordinary cyclones. The subjective composite analysis, created by averaging all the variables from each cyclone in each cluster, identified several synoptic variables and patterns to be objectively compared through permutation tests. The permutation tests revealed that synoptic variables and patterns associated with bomb cyclogenesis statistically significantly differ from ordinary cyclogenesis.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:MSSTATE/oai:scholarsjunction.msstate.edu:td-2501
Date12 May 2012
CreatorsThomas, Evan Edward
PublisherScholars Junction
Source SetsMississippi State University
Detected LanguageEnglish
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