A Spectral Analysis Based Methodology to Detect Climatological Influences on Daily Urban Water Demand

Mathematical Geosciences

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 49-68

  Adamowski, Jan ^a   Adamowski, Kaz ^b   Prokoph, Andreas ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c SPEEDSTAT   (Canada)

Author keywords

Air temperature; Continuous wavelet transform; Fourier analysis; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CONTINUOUS WAVELET TRANSFORM; CROSS-SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; FORECASTING METHODS; INVERSE RELATIONSHIP; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; NONLINEAR ALGORITHMS; SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTOR;

WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGORITHM; FOURIER TRANSFORM; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; WATER DEMAND; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ALBERTA; CALGARY; CANADA; MONTREAL; ONTARIO [CANADA]; OTTAWA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 84872603220     PISSN: 18748961     EISSN: 18748953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11004-012-9427-0     Document Type: Article

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