Comparison of stochastic and deterministic methods for mapping groundwater level spatial variability in sparsely monitored basins

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-19

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

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Environmental monitoring; Fractional Brownian motion; Geostatistics; Groundwater level; Kriging; Ungauged basin

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRACTIONAL BROWNIAN MOTION; GEO-STATISTICS; KRIGING; UNGAUGED BASINS;

GROUNDWATER; MONITORING; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

INTERPOLATION;

BROWNIAN MOTION; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOSTATISTICS; GROUNDWATER; INTERPOLATION; KRIGING; SPATIAL VARIATION; STOCHASTICITY; VARIOGRAM; WATER LEVEL; WATER MANAGEMENT;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; GREECE; GROUNDWATER LEVEL SPATIAL VARIABILITY MAPPING; INVERSE DISTANCE WEIGHT; ISOLEVEL CONTOUR MAP; KRIGING; KRIGING WITH DELAUNAY TRIANGULATION; LEAVE ONE OUT CROSS VALIDATION; MATERN SEMIVARIOGRAM MODEL; MINIMUM CURVATURE; ORDINARY KRIGING; POWER LAW SEMIVARIOGRAM MODEL; RIVER BASIN; SPARTAN SEMIVARIOGRAM MODEL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNIVERSAL KRIGING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GREECE; GROUNDWATER; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY; WATER SUPPLY;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; CRETE [GREECE]; GREECE;

EID: 84871960554     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-012-2527-y     Document Type: Article

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