Water quality trend analysis for the Karoon River in Iran

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 134, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 305-312

  Naddafi, K ^a   Honari, H ^a   Ahmadi, M ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Iran; Karoon River; Statistics; Trends; Water quality

Indexed keywords

DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVERS; STATISTICS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER ANALYSIS;

EXPONENTIAL MODELS; LOGARITHMIC MODEL;

WATER QUALITY;

BICARBONATE; MAGNESIUM ION; RIVER WATER;

BICARBONATE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HARDNESS; MAGNESIUM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVER WATER; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; IRAN; KOLMOGOROV SMIRNOV TEST; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVER BASIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER HARDNESS; WATER QUALITY;

CARBONATES; CHLORIDES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IRAN; METALS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; RIVERS; SULFATES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ASIA; EURASIA; IRAN; KAROON RIVER; KHUZESTAN; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 35848949734     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-007-9621-6     Document Type: Article

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