Impacts of Climate Variables on Residential Water Consumption in the Czech Republic

Autor: Michael Rost, Lubomír Petružela, Lenka Slavíková, Vítězslav Malý, Ondřej Vojáček
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: Water Resources Management. 27:365-379
ISSN: 1573-1650
0920-4741
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-012-0191-1
Popis: The paper investigates whether there is a statistically significant impact of short-term climate variables (specifically air temperature and rainfall) on residential water consumption at two selected case sites in the Czech Republic. The analysis is based on a unique time series of daily data from 2004–2009. The statistical methods used are CART methodology and a decomposition of these time series based on a locally weighted regression method. Apart from the data analysis results, the investigation raises several methodological questions regarding the use of daily data and the scope of analysis based on such data sets.
Databáze: OpenAIRE