An Approach to Disaggregating Total Household Water Consumption into Major End-Uses

Water Resources Management

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2155-2177

  Fontdecaba, Sara ^a   Sánchez Espigares, José A ^a   Marco Almagro, Lluís ^a   Tort Martorell, Xavier ^a   Cabrespina, Francesc ^b   Zubelzu, Jordi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b AGBAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Domestic consumption; Use of water; Water disaggregation; Water pattern recognition; Water profile

Indexed keywords

PATTERN RECOGNITION; WATER METERS;

AGGREGATE CONSUMPTION; DISAGGREGATION; DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION; HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION; IDENTIFICATION RATES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WATER METER READINGS; WATER PROFILES;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHM; PATTERN RECOGNITION; WATER SUPPLY; WATER USE;

BARCELONA [CATALONIA]; CATALONIA; MURCIA [SPAIN]; SPAIN;

EID: 84876445283     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-013-0281-8     Document Type: Article

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