Research Article

Recurrence Based Similarity Identification of Climate Data

Table 2

Normalized temperature values.

US regions1895/011895/021895/031895/041895/051895/061895/071895/082014/12

R10.130.080.270.530.750.910.880.130.34
R20.130.190.370.620.680.760.850.130.32
R30.220.310.390.560.650.760.870.220.37
R40.150.110.380.610.730.890.880.150.34
R50.160.080.410.590.70.840.880.160.3
R60.20.070.390.560.710.880.90.20.34
R70.170.170.350.530.660.780.870.170.27
R80.120.160.370.640.760.870.890.120.35
R90.20.30.370.50.640.770.870.20.34

R1–R9 indicate the notations used for US regions: R1—Northeast; R2—Northern Rockies and Plains; R3—Northwest; R4—Ohio Valley; R5—South; R6—Southeast; R7—Southwest; R8—Upper Midwest; R9—West.