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Regional-scale groundwater analysis with dimensionality reduction
Márk Somogyvári
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Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Fabio Brill
Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Mikhail Tsypin
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Geosystems Department, Section 4.5 Subsurface Process Modeling, Potsdam, Germany
Institute of Applied Geosciences, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Lisa Rihm
Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Tobias Krueger
Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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In this study, we examined regional differences in groundwater behavior in Berlin-Brandenburg. We have developed a novel approach, combining standard groundwater modelling tools such with special data analysis techniques. The presented methodology can help to separate areas with different groundwater behavior from each other, which could be used as a starting point for further analysis.
In this study, we examined regional differences in groundwater behavior in Berlin-Brandenburg....
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