Modeling the usefulness of spatial correlation analysis on karst systems

Ground Water

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 427-437

  Budge, Trevor J ^a,b   Sharp Jr , John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b URS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER PARAMETERS; CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING; CROSS CORRELATIONS; CROSS-CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA SETS; EDWARDS AQUIFERS; FIELD DATUM; FIELD STUDIES; GROUND WATER MODELS; KARST AQUIFERS; KARST SYSTEMS; MATRIXES; MODFLOW; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PRECIPITATION DATUM; PRECIPITATION TIME SERIES; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; SPATIAL VARIABILITIES; SPATIALLY VARYING PARAMETERS; SPRING DISCHARGES; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

AQUIFERS; CORRELATION METHODS; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; LANDFORMS; WATER WELLS;

RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS);

AQUIFER; CORRELATION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; KARST HYDROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECHARGE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPRING WATER;

ARTICLE; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER FLOW;

MODELS, THEORETICAL; WATER MOVEMENTS;

BARTON SPRINGS; NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

PADILLA;

EID: 65449119651     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2008.00508.x     Document Type: Article

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