Identifying the relationships between urban water consumption and weather variables in Seoul, Korea

Physical Geography

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 324-337

  Praskievicz, Sarah ^a   Chang, Heejun ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ARIMA; Regression; Seoul; Temperature; Water consumption; Wind speed

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TIMESCALE; URBAN AREA; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY; WATER USE; WIND VELOCITY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; KOREA; SEOUL [SOUTH KOREA]; SOUTH KOREA;

EID: 70450270679     PISSN: 02723646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3646.30.4.324     Document Type: Article

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