Exploring spatial variation and spatial relationships in a freshwater acidification critical load data set for Great Britain using geographically weighted summary statistics

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 54-70

  Harris, Paul ^a   Brunsdon, Chris ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acidified surface waters; Catchment characteristics; Geographical kernel weighting; Local statistics; Nonstationarity

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFIED SURFACE WATERS; CATCHMENT CHARACTERISTICS; GEOGRAPHICAL KERNEL WEIGHTING; LOCAL STATISTICS; NONSTATIONARITY;

CALIBRATION; CATCHMENTS;

RUNOFF;

ACIDIFICATION; CALIBRATION; CATCHMENT; FRESHWATER; GEOSTATISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; WATER CHEMISTRY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70350719208     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2009.04.012     Document Type: Article

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