期刊名称：Journal of the Geographical Institute Jovan Cvijic, SASA
印刷版ISSN：0350-7599
电子版ISSN：1821-2808
出版年度：2019
卷号：69
期号：3
页码：185-195
DOI：10.2298/IJGI1903185P
出版社：Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijić” SASA
摘要：The paper investigates the spatial distribution of the seasonal and annual precipitation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The mean monthly precipitation data from 40 meteorological stations covering the standard climatological thirty‐year period (1961−1990) were used for the analysis. Seven precipitation‐based parameters were used to regionalize climate in Bosnia and Herzegovina by using the Principal Component Analysis and clustering techniques. The spatial patterns of precipitation were determined by using the R‐mode principal component analysis with varimax rotation. The first two principal components, which describe 97.60% of the total variance, were taken into consideration. The varimax rotated scores were subjected to the Cluster Analysis in order to identify homogeneous precipitation regions over the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The agglomerative hierarchical clustering identified three sub‐regions with different precipitation regimes. The complex orography, i.e., the influence of the Pannonian Basin, the Dinaric Alps, and the Adriatic Sea, is one of the most decisive factors that affect spatial patterns of precipitation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
关键词：precipitation; spatial patterns; Principal Component Analysis; Cluster Analysis; Bosnia and Herzegovina
