European regions clustered according to projected climate changes

Methodology

The cluster analysis is based on 8 climate change variables:

• Change in annual mean temperature
• Decrease in number of frost days
• Change of annual mean number of summer days
• Relative change of annual mean precipitation in winter month
• Relative change of annual mean precipitation in summer month
• Change in annual mean number of days with heavy rainfall
• Relative change in annual mean evapotranspiration
• Change in annual mean number of days with snow cover

Additional information

The map is based on a cluster analysis and represents aggregated data. Therefore in some areas a specific climate factor

might point in a different or even opposite direction than indicated in the cluster.