Spatial analysis of water quality trends in the Han River basin, South Korea

Water Research

Volumn 42, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 3285-3304

  Chang, Heejun ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

GIS; Land cover; Scale; Spatial analysis; Spatial regression; Trend; Urbanization; Water quality

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; QUALITY MANAGEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVER POLLUTION; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; STATISTICS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS; TOPOGRAPHY; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

LAND COVER; SCALE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL REGRESSION; TREND; URBANIZATION;

QUALITY CONTROL;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GIS; LAND COVER; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GEOLOGY; PARTICLE RESUSPENSION; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVER; SOUTH KOREA; TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUANGDONG; HAN BASIN;

EID: 54049083473     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2008.04.006     Document Type: Article

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