Groundwater-level change for the periods 2002–8, 2008–12, and 2008–16 in the Santa Fe Group aquifer system in the Albuquerque area, central New Mexico

Abstract

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Evaluation of water-level trends in the Mimbres Basin, southwest New Mexico (USA), using spatiotemporal kriging

“…Sequential water-level maps through time are useful for understanding factors relevant to changing groundwater levels such as climatic variations relating to recharge and the impact of groundwater management strategies. Derivative products from sequential water-level maps include maps of water-level change (Bexfield and Anderholm 2002;Tillery 2008a, b;Galanter and Curry 2019;Falk et al 2011;Powell and McKean 2014;Ritchie et al 2019), estimates of groundwater storage change (e.g., McGuire et al 2012;Haacker et al 2016;Rinehart et al 2016) and maps of projected usable lifetimes of an aquifer (Mulligan et al 2008;Rawling and Rinehart 2018).…”

“…It was originally developed in the mining industry and has a strong theoretical background (Cressie 2015). It is applied regularly across the gamut of earth and environmental sciences (Webster and Oliver 2007), and groundwater hydrology in particular (Kitanidis 1997), including in recent studies in New Mexico (Rinehart et al 2016;Rawling and Rinehart 2018;Ritchie et al 2019). Spatiotemporal kriging is an extension of spatial kriging to include the additional dimension of time, and it derives from an equally well-developed theory (Cressie and Wikle 2011;Montero et al 2015;Gräler et al 2016;Wikle et al 2019).…”