Development and comparison of circulation type classifications using the COST 733 dataset and software

Andreas Philipp; Christoph Beck; Radan Huth; Jucundus Jacobeit

doi:10.1002/joc.3920

journal article Mar 06, 2014

Development and comparison of circulation type classifications using the COST 733 dataset and software

Andreas Philipp Christoph Beck Radan Huth Jucundus Jacobeit

International Journal of Climatology Vol. 36 No. 7 pp. 2673-2691 · Wiley

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Abstract

ABSTRACTIn order to examine correspondence between different methods for circulation type classification, a dataset of classification catalogs for 12 different European regions has been created using a specially developed software package. Twenty‐seven basic automatic classification methods have been applied in several variants to different input datasets describing atmospheric circulation. Together with six manual classifications a total of 33 methods are available for inter‐comparison.Pattern correlation, frequency time‐series correlation and the adjusted Rand index have been used for comparison. Highly significant correspondence has been detected only for two clustering techniques while the remaining classification methods show surprisingly low similarity. A Monte‐Carlo test with 1000 classifications of randomly defined types even shows that most of the methods are not more similar among each other than any arbitrarily chosen types.The predominant dissimilarity between the methods is interpreted to be a result of a lack of inherent structures of the input data. Only simulated annealing clustering and self‐organizing maps get nearly identical results because they can optimally fit the partitioning to the outer shape of the data cloud in the phase space. Also methods based on pre‐defined types come to very different results because small changes in the definition of thresholds may lead to large differences in the partitioning.It is concluded that because of the missing inner structure of the data there is no clear statistical reason to prefer any of the examined methods. For practice in synoptic climatology this means that finding a suited classification for a certain purpose may require a broad comparison of methods. The software package cost733class for development, comparison and evaluation of classifications which was developed and used in this study is available at http://cost733.geo.uni‐augsburg.de to facilitate this task.

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Published: Mar 06, 2014
Vol/Issue: 36(7)
Pages: 2673-2691
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Authors

A

Andreas Philipp

Institute of Geography University of Augsburg Germany

C

Christoph Beck

Institute of Geography University of Augsburg Germany

R

Radan Huth

Department of Climatology, Institute of Atmospheric Physics Praha 4 Czech Republic

J

Jucundus Jacobeit

Institute of Geography University of Augsburg Germany

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Andreas Philipp, Christoph Beck, Radan Huth, et al. (2014). Development and comparison of circulation type classifications using the COST 733 dataset and software. International Journal of Climatology, 36(7), 2673-2691. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.3920

Development and comparison of circulation type classifications using the COST 733 dataset and software

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