Assessment of chemical water types and their spatial variation using multi-stage cluster analysis, Queensland, Australia

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 310, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 181-200

  McNeil, Vivienne H ^a,b   Cox, Malcolm E ^a   Preda, Micaela ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b Natural Resource Sciences   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Freshwater; Gauging station; Major ions; Queensland; Salinity; Stream flow; Water quality

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CHLORINE; MAGNESIUM PRINTING PLATES; NEGATIVE IONS; NITRIC ACID; OCEANOGRAPHY; POSITIVE IONS; RAIN; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SODIUM; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

CHEMICAL WATER; HARD WATER; K-MEANS CLUSTERING METHODS; SURFACE WATER;

WATER;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; STREAMFLOW; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER QUALITY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; QUEENSLAND; WORLD;

CARPENTARIA;

EID: 20544473122     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2004.12.014     Document Type: Article

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