WWRC 97-05xx
Determination of Precipitation Spatial Distributions For Studying Groundwater Pollution
Goundwater pollution has become a great concern. Precipitation is a driving force for chemical
pollutants movement from soil to groundwater systems. Therefore, the amount and spatial
distributions of precipitation are important information to estimate and predict groundwater
pollution., However, in most cases, the network of precipitation measuring stations is sparce
and available rainfall data are insufficient to characterize high variability of precipitation
spatial distributions. As a useful tool, geostatistics can be applied to estimate precipitation
in unmeasured areas. In this study we used geostatistics to estimate precipitation spatial
distributions in Wyoming. Coupling with numerical models, we utilized the precipitation
distributions as input to study the rainfall impact on the groundwater pollution of the state.
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