Assessment of groundwater pollution in West Delhi, India using geostatistical approach

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 167, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 599-615

  Adhikary, Partha Pratim ^a,b   Chandrasekharan, H ^a   Chakraborty, Debashis ^a   Kamble, Kalpana ^a  

^a INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b ICAR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (India)

Author keywords

Geostatistics; Groundwater quality; Indicator kriging; Ordinary kriging; Semivariogram

Indexed keywords

GEO-STATISTICS; GROUNDWATER QUALITY; INDICATOR KRIGING; ORDINARY KRIGING; SEMIVARIOGRAMS;

CALCIUM; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; INDICATORS (CHEMICAL); INTERPOLATION; MAGNESIUM; MAPS; POLLUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SODIUM; WATER QUALITY;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

BICARBONATE; CALCIUM; CHLORIDE; GROUND WATER; MAGNESIUM; NITRATE; SODIUM; SULFATE; WELL WATER; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; WATER POLLUTANT;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GEOSTATISTICS; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; KRIGING; RISK ASSESSMENT; THEMATIC MAPPING; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPLOITATION; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; INDIA; KRIGING; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK ASSESSMENT; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL; WATER POLLUTION INDICATOR; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER POLLUTANT;

BICARBONATES; CHLORIDES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDIA; MAGNESIUM; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITRATES; SODIUM; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

DELHI; INDIA;

EID: 77956190067     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-009-1076-5     Document Type: Article

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