Statistical modeling of daily urban water consumption in Hong Kong: Trend, changing patterns, and forecast

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  See Wong, Jefferson ^a   Zhang, Qiang ^b   Chen, Yongqin David ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOREGRESSION; CALENDAR EFFECTS; CHANGING ENVIRONMENT; DATA SETS; DAY-OF-THE-WEEK EFFECT; HONG-KONG; SEASONALITY; STATISTICAL MODELING; STATISTICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; TEMPORAL VARIATION; URBAN WATER RESOURCES; URBAN WATERS; WATER USE; URBAN WATER USE;

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

WATER SUPPLY;

DATA SET; SEASONALITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE; WATER USE;

CHINA; HONG KONG;

EID: 77949596261     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008147     Document Type: Article

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