Evaluating climate variability and pumping effects in statistical analyses

Ground Water

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 212-227

  Mayer, Timothy D ^b   Congdon, Roger D ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROUNDWATER; PARAMETERIZATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACTS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; SEASONAL DECOMPOSITION; TREND ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

WATER;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AQUIFER; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PUMPING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER LEVEL;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CLIMATE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; WATER;

EID: 40149104711     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2007.00381.x     Document Type: Article

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