TITLE:
Climatic Effects on the Formation and Function of Architectures Based on the Climate in Semnan Province, Iran
AUTHORS:
Saeid Kamyabi, Hooman Mesgarian
KEYWORDS:
Climate Potential, Principle Components, Cluster Analysis, Semnan Province
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Ecology,
Vol.4 No.9,
June
25,
2014
ABSTRACT: Semnan province is one of the vast provinces
of the country that has a variety of topographical and clamatorial conditions.
This province plays a key role in industrial, agricultural and animal husbandry
activities. The study of its climate potential with respect to its natural
limitations like lack of water resources, soil types, droughts and
desertification problems has been considered as a necessity in the province
annual planning. In this study, the climatic regionalization of the province is
done through using empirical and quantitative methods on climatic data of
meteorological stations of the area in statistical period of 1982-2005. Methods
of Koppen empirical, De Martonne, Emberger and Dr Karimi have divided the
province into 3, 2, 4 and 6 climactic types, respectively. Using principle
components and the cluster analysis on 14 climatic elements of 21 stations, 5
climatic types have been specified for the province. Based on this method,
temperature, its Diurnal Temperature Range (DTR), precipitation and its type,
and humidity contribute a great deal to the climate of the Semnan Province. The
main results of this identification of 5 climatic types include hot & dry, dry
& hot semi-dry, dry & cold semi-dry, mountainous, and Caspian climate.