Pattern of Groundwater Levels by Statistical Method

Knowledge of spatial and temporal patterns of groundwater levels is useful to evaluate efficacy of existing groundwater monitoring network. This book demonstrates application of graphical and multivariate statistical techniques to evaluate monitoring network of 50 sites in hard-rock aquifers of Ahar River catchment of Udaipur, Rajasthan. The graphical analysis included plotting of time plots and box-whisker plots for monthly groundwater levels for three years. Multivariate statistical technique includes principal component analysis (PCA) and hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA).