Water quality assessment of the Jinshui River (China) using multivariate statistical techniques

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1631-1639

  Bu, Hongmei ^a,b   Tan, Xiang ^a,b   Li, Siyue ^a   Zhang, Quanfa ^a  

^a Wuhan Institute of Botany Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Discriminant analysis; Factor analysis; Jinshui River; Water quality

Indexed keywords

AMMONIACAL NITROGEN; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; CHEMICAL COMPONENT; CHEMICAL VARIABLES; DECOMPOSITION PROCESS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; INTER-BASIN WATER TRANSFER; JINSHUI RIVER; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; NATURAL WEATHERING; NITRATE NITROGEN; PHYSICAL PROCESS; POLLUTION LEVEL; RIVER WATER QUALITY; SAMPLING SITE; SUSTAINABLE WATERSHED MANAGEMENT; TOTAL DISSOLVED SOLIDS; TOTAL VARIANCE; WATER QUALITY ASSESSMENTS; WATER SOURCE; WATER TEMPERATURES;

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DISSOLUTION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ECOSYSTEMS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; POTASSIUM; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVERS; SOIL CONSERVATION; TURBIDITY; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

QUALITY CONTROL;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DISSOLVED LOAD; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; FACTOR ANALYSIS; NUTRIENT; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; RIVER MANAGEMENT; RIVER POLLUTION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCE; WATER TEMPERATURE; WATERSHED; WEATHERING;

CHINA; JINSHUI RIVER; SHAANXI;

EID: 77953625332     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-009-0297-9     Document Type: Article

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