Assessment of seasonal variations in stream water by principal component analysis

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 106, Issue , 2007, Pages 539-548

  Taboada Castro, M M ^a   Rodriguez Blanco M L ^a   Taboada Castro, M T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Hydrochemistry; Principal component analysis; Seasonal variation; Surface water

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; DATA SET; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HYDROCHEMISTRY; NITROGEN; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SCHIST; SEASONAL VARIATION; STREAMWATER; WATER QUALITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 38849173727     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/ECO070511     Document Type: Article

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