Addition of a climate variable to the Howe and Linaweaver Western Sprinkling Equation
- 1 June 1989
- journal article
- Published by American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Water Resources Research
- Vol. 25 (6) , 1067-1069
- https://doi.org/10.1029/wr025i006p01067
Abstract
Howe and Linaweaver's (1967) equation for predicting residential sprinkling demand in metered communities of the western United States (R2=0.674) is used extensively in current forecasting studies, even though it contains no climate variable. Reanalysis of the original data has produced a different equation in which climate is the single most important predictor of western‐metered sprinkling demand. The new equation (R2=0.767) indicates elasticities as follows: price is −0.5, home value is +0.6, and moisture deficit is +1.3.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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