CHARACTERIZING THE SPATIAL VARIABILITY OF GROUNDWATER QUALITY USING THE ENTROPY THEORY: II. CASE STUDY FROM GAZA STRIP

The application of the entropy theory is illustrated using the chloride observations obtained from a network of groundwater quality monitoring wells in the Gaza Strip, Palestine. The application involves calculating information measures, such as transinformation. The analysis shows that transinformation, as a function of distance, can be represented by the exponential decay curve. It also indicates that the transinformation model is superior to the correlation model for characterising the spatial variability.