Improved method for aggregation of water quality subindices

Journal of Environmental Engineering

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 220-225

  Swamee, Prabhata K ^a   Tyagi, Aditya ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

^b CH2M HILL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Water pollution; Water quality

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RIGIDITY; WATER POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL;

AGGREGATE INDEX; WATER QUALITY INDEX; WATER QUALITY SUBINDICES; WATER QUALITY VARIABLES;

WATER QUALITY;

AGGLOMERATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RIGIDITY; WATER POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL; WATER QUALITY;

AGGREGATION; INDEX METHOD; NUMERICAL METHOD; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 33846409824     PISSN: 07339372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9372(2007)133:2(220)     Document Type: Article

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