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iassist-577	Walters, William H.	Climate Indices for Use in Social and Behavioural Research	1999	9	.pdf	application/pdf	4199	176	62	He describes six modes of analysis, which can be used to (1) classify geographic locations according to climate, (2) identify time periods in which climatic conditions remained stable, and (3) represent a large number of climate variables through a smaller number of factors. This report describes the use of factor analysis to create five climate indices from a set of 37 original (observed) variables.	cache/iassist-577.pdf	txt/iassist-577.txt