Water quality assessment of Wei River, China using fuzzy synthetic evaluation

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1693-1699

  Lu, Xinwei ^a   Li, Loretta Y ^b   Lei, Kai ^a   Wang, Lijun ^a   Zhai, Yuxiang ^a   Zhai, Meng ^a  

^a SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fuzzy synthetic evaluation; Membership function; Water quality; Wei River

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES; ECOLOGICAL HEALTH; ENTROPY METHODS; FUZZY SYNTHETIC EVALUATION; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATERS; SAMPLING LOCATION; SAMPLING SITE; WATER ENVIRONMENTS; WATER QUALITY ASSESSMENTS; WATER SAMPLES; WEI RIVER; WEIGHT DETERMINATION;

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; MERCURY (METAL); RIVERS; WASTEWATER; WATER QUALITY;

RIVER POLLUTION;

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DOMESTIC WASTE; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ENTROPY; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PH; PUBLIC HEALTH; RIVER POLLUTION; SAMPLING; URBAN POPULATION; WASTEWATER; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCE;

CHINA; SHAANXI; WEI RIVER;

EID: 77953630326     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-009-0303-2     Document Type: Article

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