Studying Patterns of Rainfall and Topographical Clustering for Kingdom of Bahrain: An Application of Big Data
Uneb Gazder
Abstract:Rainfall is an important aspect for urban planners, especially for professionals related to highway design. This study was aimed at studying the patterns of rainfall in Kingdom of Bahrain using cluster analysis with topographical data. The rainfall data was collected from the website meteorological directorate of ministry of transportation and telecommunication of Bahrain, which consisted of approximately 14000 days, thus referred to as big data. K-means clustering was used to identify the patterns. Moreover, … Show more
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