A state-wide assessment of optimal groundwater hydrograph time series models

Abstract

A number of groundwater hydrograph time series models have been proposed over recent years but, to our knowledge, there has been no systematic review of their performance and thus no means of selecting a model to suit the prevailing conditions. This paper presents an evaluation of the new groundwater hydrograph time series models presented in Peterson and Western (2011) against existing models on 620 bore hydrographs distributed throughout Victoria. Bores that monitor water level under natural conditions and having at least 20 years of data were used. The aim of this study is to rigorously demonstrate the strength of the Peterson and Western (2011) models (hence referred to as soil moisture ..