Improvement of groundwater level prediction in sparsely gauged basins using physical laws and local geographic features as auxiliary variables

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 52, Issue , 2013, Pages 34-49

  Varouchakis, E A ^a   Hristopulos, D T ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Auxiliary variables; Fractional Brownian motion; Groundwater level; Residual Kriging; Ungauged basin

Indexed keywords

AUXILIARY VARIABLES; COMPONENT BASED; CROSS-VALIDATION ANALYSIS; FRACTIONAL BROWNIAN MOTION; GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT; HYDRAULIC HEADS; KRIGING; MODEL ESTIMATES; MODELING TOOL; MULTIPLE WELLS; PHYSICAL LAWS; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES; RIVER CROSSINGS; SEMIVARIOGRAMS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; UNCONFINED AQUIFERS; UNGAUGED BASINS; WORKING AREAS;

ANISOTROPY; AQUIFERS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; INTERPOLATION; WATER MANAGEMENT;

FORECASTING;

BROWNIAN MOTION; GROUNDWATER; HYDRAULIC HEAD; KRIGING; PREDICTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; UNCONFINED AQUIFER; WATER LEVEL;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; CRETE [GREECE]; GREECE;

EID: 84870153759     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2012.08.002     Document Type: Article

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