Application of multivariate statistical procedures to the hydrochemical study of a coastal aquifer: An example from Crete, Greece

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1482-1495

  Papatheodorou, George ^a   Lambrakis, N ^a   Panagopoulos, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Discriminant analysis; Factor analysis; Karst aquifer; Nitrate pollution; Seawater intrusion; Trend surface analysis

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER GEOCHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; NITRATES; SALT WATER INTRUSION; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURFACE ANALYSIS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

FACTOR ANALYSIS; GROUNDWATER COMPOSITION; GROUNWATER QUALITY; HYDROCHEMICAL PROCESS; SALINIZATION; TREND SURFACE ANALYSIS;

AQUIFERS;

AQUIFERS; GROUNDWATER GEOCHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; NITRATES; SALT WATER INTRUSION; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURFACE ANALYSIS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

COASTAL AQUIFER; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROCHEMISTRY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NITRATE; RECHARGE; SEAWATER;

CRETE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

MALIA;

EID: 34248588150     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6322     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Appelo CAJ, Postma D. 1993. Geochemistry, Groundwater and Pollution. Balkema: Rotterdam; 536.
2. Brown CA. 1998. Applied Multivariate Statistics in Geohydrology and Related Sciences. Springer: New York; 248.
3. Cruz JV, Silva MO. 1999. Groundwater salinization in Pico Island (Alores, Portugal): origin and mechanisms. Environmental Geology 39: 1181-1189.
4. Davis JC. 1986. Statistics and Data Analysis in Geology, 2nd edn. John Willey and Sons: New York; 646.
5. Freeze RA, Cherry JA. 1979. Groundwater. Prentice-Hall: Englewood Cliffs, NJ; 604.
6. Gimenez E, Morell I. 1997. Hydrogeochemical analysis of salinization processes in the coastal aquifer of Oropesa (Castellon, Spain). Environmental Geology 29(1/2): 118-131.
7. Helena B, Pardo R, Vega M, Barrado E, Fernandez J, Fernandez L. 2000. Temporal evolution of groundwater composition in an alluvial aquifer (Pisuerga River, Spain) by Principal component analysis. Water Research 34(3): 807-816.
8. Hem JD. 1992. Study and Interpretation of the Chemical Characteristics of Natural Water. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC.
9. Kacaroglu F, Gynay G. 1997. Groundwater nitrate pollution in an alluvial aquifer, Eskisehir urban area and its vicinity, Turkey. Environmental Geology 31: 221-230.
10. Kim J-H, Kim R-H, Lee J, Cheong T-J, Yum B-W, Chang H-W. 2005. Multivariate statistical analysis to identify the major factors governing groundwater quality in the coastal are of Kimje, South Korea. Hydrological Processes 19: 1261-1276.
11. Lambrakis N. 1992. Introduction to Hydrochemistry. Patras University Publications: University of Patras, Patras; 158.
12. Lambrakis N, Antonakos A, Panagopoulos G. 2004. The use of multicomponent statistical analysis in hydrogeological environmental research. Water Research 38: 1862-1872.
13. Lambrakis NJ. 1997. The impact of human activities in the Malia coastal area (Crete) on groundwater quality. Environmental Geology 36: 87-92.
14. Lee JY, Cheon JY, Lee KK, Lee SY, Lee MH. 2001. Statistical evaluation of geochemical parameter distribution in a ground water system contaminated with petroleum hydrocarbons. Journal of Environmental Quality 30: 1548-1563.
15. Morell I, Gimenez E, Esteller MV. 1996. Application of principal components analysis to the study of salinization on the Castellon plain (Spain). The Science of the Total Environment 177: 161-171.
16. Panagopoulos G, Lambrakis N, Tsolis-Katagas P, Papoulis D. 2004. Cation exchange processes and human activities in unconfined aquifers. Environmental Geology 46: 542-552.
17. Papatheodorou G, Lambrakis N. 1997. Trend surface analysis of hydrochemical data. Case studies of Plio-Pleistocene aquifers from N.W. Peloponnesus and Central Crete, Greece. In Proceedings of Third Annual Conference of International Association for Mathematical Geology, Pawlowsky V (ed.). CIMNE: Barcelona; 972-979. ISBN 84-87867-97-9.
18. Ritzi RW, Wright SL, Mann B, Chen M. 1993. Analysis of temporal variability in hydrogeochemical data used for multivariate analysis. Ground Water 31(2): 221-229.
19. Ruiz F, Gomis V, Blasco P. 1990. Application of factor analysis to the hydrochemical study of a coastal aquifer. Journal of Hydrology 119: 169-177.
20. Spalding RF, Exner ME. 1993. Occurrence of nitrate in groundwater: a review. Journal of Environmental Quality 22: 389-402.
21. Stumm W, Morgan IJ. 1996. Aquatic Chemistry, 3rd edn. Wiley-Interscience: New York; 1022.
22. Suk H, Lee K. 1999. Characterization of a ground water hydrochemical system through multivariate analysis: clustering into ground water zones. Ground Water 37(3): 358-366.
23. Tiedje JM. 1994. Denitrifies. In Methods of Soil Analysis Part 2. Microbiological and Biochemical Properties, Weaver RM, Angle S, Bottomley P (eds). Soil Science Society of America: Madison, WI; 245-267.
24. Voudouris K, Lambrakis N, Papatheodorou G, Daskalaki P. 1997. An application of factor analysis for the study of the hydrogeological conditions in plio-pleistocene aquifers of N.W. Achaia (NW Peloponnesus, Greece). Mathematical Geology 29: 43-59.
25. Voudouris K, Panagopoulos A, Koumantakis J. 2000. Multivariate statistical analysis in the assessment of hydrochemistry of the Northern Korinthia Prefecture Alluvial Aquifer system (Peloponnese, Greece). Natural Resources Research 9: 135-145.