Abstract
Climatic classification is essential for evaluating climate parameters that allow sustainable urban planning and resource management in countries with difficult access to meteorological information. Clustering methods are on trend to identify climate zoning; however, for microclimate, it is necessary to apply a double clustering technique to reduce the variability from former clusters. This research raised a climate classification of an emerging country, Colombia, using climatological models based on freely available satellite image data. A double clustering approach was applied, including climatological, geographic, and topographic patterns. The research was divided into four stages, covering the collection and selection of climatic and geographic data, and multivariate statistical analysis including principal components analysis (PCA) and agglomerative hierarchical clustering (HAC). The meteorological data were from reliable sources from the Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing (CHRS) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The results showed that a total of 17 microclimates distributed across the country were identified, each characterized by a different threshold of the climatic and geographic factors evaluated. This subdivision provided a detailed understanding of local climatic conditions, especially in the mountain chains of the Andes.
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