Factors controlling groundwater chemistry in an agricultural area with complex topographic and land use patterns in mid-western South Korea

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 23, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 2915-2928

  Koh, Dong Chan ^a   Kim, Eun Young ^a   Ryu, Jong Sik ^b,c   Ko, Kyung Seok ^a  

^a Korea Institute of Geosceince and Mineral Resources   (South Korea)

^b Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI)   (South Korea)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Hierarchical cluster analysis; Land use; Nitrate contamination; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED WEATHERING; AGRICULTURAL AREAS; ANTHROPOGENIC PROCESS; CONTAMINANT LOADINGS; CONTAMINATED WATER; DRINKING WATER SOURCES; DRINKING WATER STANDARDS; GROUNDWATER CHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER MIXING; HIERARCHICAL CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HIGH ALTITUDE; HIGHER-DEGREE; HYDROCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; LAND USE PATTERN; MINOR CONSTITUENTS; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; NATURAL MINERALIZATION; NITRATE CONCENTRATION; NITRATE CONTAMINATION; NITRATE LOADINGS; PADDY FIELDS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; REDUCING ENVIRONMENT; REDUCTION PROCESS; RESIDENTIAL AREAS; SHALLOW GROUNDWATER; SOIL ACIDIFICATIONS; SOUTH KOREA; SPRING WATER; TOTAL DEPTHS;

AGRICULTURE; AQUIFERS; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTAMINATION; DISSOLUTION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; LAND USE; LOADING; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; MICROCOMPUTERS; MINERALOGY; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; NITRATES; POTABLE WATER; WATER SUPPLY; WEATHERING;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ACIDITY; AGRICULTURAL LAND; AQUIFER; CHLORINE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; LAND USE CHANGE; NITRATE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SULFATE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WATER CHEMISTRY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; KOREA; SOUTH KOREA;

EID: 70349254152     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7382     Document Type: Article

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