Using Clustered Climate Regimes For

spect to the N charac- Corresponding author address: Forrest M. Hoffman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831--6036 USA; e-mail: forrest@climate.ornl.gov Oak Ridge National Laboratory, managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy under contract number DE--AC05--00OR22725. Matter Organic 1 2 3 4 5 6 A B C D E G H C B E FG H 4 2 1 Temperature Organic Matter Rainfall Perform multivariate clustering. non-hierarchical statistical 1 3 4 2 Cluster Bins F2 H1 D6 E4 D5 C6 B7 A8 A6 F8 G8 G7 variables become axes of the data space. Map cell values become coordinates for the respective axis. Descriptive Group map cells with similar values for these descriptive variables. space and color them according to their cluster number. Reassemble map cells in geographic Temperature H1 Temperature G7 H1 Rainfall Geographic Space Data Space D5 D6 E4 F2 G8 F8 E6 C6 B7 A8 A6 Figure 1: The Multiv