Geostatistical analysis of spatiotemporal variability of groundwater level fluctuations in Amman-Zarqa basin, Jordan: A case study

Environmental Geology

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 525-535

  Táany, Rakad A ^a   Tahboub, Alaeddin B ^a   Saffarini, Ghazi A ^b  

^a AL BALQA APPLIED UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Amman Zarqa basin; Autocorrelation; Geostatistics; Kriging interpolation; Semivariance analysis

Indexed keywords

AMMAN-ZARQA BASIN; AUTO-CORRELATION ANALYSIS; AUTOCORRELOGRAMS; GEOSTATISTICAL; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; GEOSTATISTICS; GROUNDWATER FLOW DIRECTIONS; GROUNDWATER LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS; INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES; KRIGING; KRIGING INTERPOLATION; KRIGING INTERPOLATION TECHNIQUES; SEMIVARIANCE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITIES; SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIABILITIES; TEMPORAL DEPENDENCES; WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENTS; WATER-LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS;

AQUIFERS; CORRELATION DETECTORS; DROPS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROGEOLOGY; INTERPOLATION; MILITARY OPERATIONS; UNDERGROUND RESERVOIRS; WATER LEVELS;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

AUTOCORRELATION; GEOSTATISTICS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; KRIGING; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER LEVEL;

AMMAN; ASIA; EURASIA; JORDAN; MIDDLE EAST; ZARQA;

EID: 67349272054     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-008-1322-0     Document Type: Article

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