Identifying non-stationary groundwater level response to North Atlantic ocean-atmosphere teleconnection patterns using wavelet coherence

Hydrogeology Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1269-1278

  Holman, Ian Paul ^a   Rivas Casado, Monica ^a   Bloomfield, John P ^b   Gurdak, Jason J ^c  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Groundwater statistics; North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO); United Kingdom (UK); Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; AQUIFER; BOREHOLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; TELECONNECTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER LEVEL; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EAST); ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); SCANDINAVIA; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 80052372925     PISSN: 14312174     EISSN: 14350157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10040-011-0755-9     Document Type: Article

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