Some statistical methods of the objective classification of oceanographic data

Algorithms for the compression and objective classification of low-volume samplings according to the test of their belonging to different statistical populations are given. Samplings are discriminated by thex² test. The distributions of the temperature patch horizontal scales in the upper ocean are analysed. It is shown that optimum empirical thresholds exist when the abstract classification mechanism goes over to the objective natural classification.Translated by Mikhail M. Trufanov.