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Any scientific study is based on a number of information on the system or processes through measurement of parameters defining one or more properties of the physical system. In most cases these parameters change their values in space and sometimes in time also and hence they are called variables. Rainfall, effective recharge, thickness of an aquifer, hydraulic head, transmissivity, permeability, storage coefficient, etc. are the examples in hydrogeology. Although, these parameters are often highly variables but this spatial variability is not purely random and, according to Matheron (1963), if measurements are made at two different locations, the closer the measurement points are to each other, the closer the measured values. These variables are given the name of Regionalized Variables (Re. V).
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Murthy, P.S.N., Arora, T., Ahmed, S. (2008). Applying Geostatistics: Basic Knowledge and Variographic Analysis with Exercises. In: Ahmed, S., Jayakumar, R., Salih, A. (eds) Groundwater Dynamics in Hard Rock Aquifers. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6540-8_12
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