Climate signal propagation in southern California aquifers

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Barco, Janet ^a   Hogue, Terri S ^a   Girotto, Manuela ^a   Kendall, Donald R ^b   Putti, Mario ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Calleguas Municipal Water District   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE SIGNALS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COMPLEX INTERACTION; CORRELATION MATRIX; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GROUND WATER LEVEL; GROUND WATER RECHARGE; GROUNDWATER SYSTEM; GROWING DEMAND; HYDROLOGIC BUDGETS; INDUSTRIAL USE; MANN-KENDALL TEST; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION TIME SERIES; PREWHITENING; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TREND DETECTION; WATER DYNAMICS; WATER RESOURCES PLANNING; WELL LOCATION; WESTERN UNITED STATES;

AQUIFERS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HYDROGEOLOGY; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; LANDFORMS; METADATA; PLANNING; POPULATION STATISTICS; RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS); STATISTICAL TESTS; SURFACE WATER RESOURCES; SURFACE WATERS; TIME SERIES; WATER LEVELS; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS; WELLS;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

CLIMATE VARIATION; CORRELATION; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FOURIER TRANSFORM; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; RECHARGE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TIME SERIES; WATER LEVEL; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER PLANNING; WATER RESOURCE;

CALIFORNIA; CALLEGUAS CREEK; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78649577224     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008376     Document Type: Article

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