Spatial water quality assessment of Langat River Basin (Malaysia) using environmetric techniques

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 173, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 625-641

  Juahir, Hafizan ^a   Zain, Sharifuddin M ^b   Yusoff, Mohd Kamil ^a   Hanidza, T I Tengku ^a   Armi, A S Mohd ^a   Toriman, Mohd Ekhwan ^c   Mokhtar, Mazlin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Discriminant analysis; Environmetric; Factor analysis; Principal component analysis; Water quality

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCES; ENVIRONMETRIC; FACTOR ANALYSIS; HIERARCHICAL AGGLOMERATIVE CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MALAYSIA; MUNICIPAL WASTE; POLLUTION SOURCES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; QUALITY PATTERNS; RIVER BASINS; RIVER WATER QUALITY; SPATIAL CLUSTER; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TOTAL VARIANCE; TOTAL VARIATION; WATER QUALITY ASSESSMENTS; WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS;

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; POLLUTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; RIVER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

RIVERS;

RIVER WATER; RUNOFF; SURFACE WATER;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVER WATER; SPATIAL VARIATION; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURAL WASTE; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LAND USE; MALAYSIA; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RIVER BASIN; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; MALAYSIA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS;

LANGAT RIVER; MALAYSIA; WEST MALAYSIA;

EID: 79151486489     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-010-1411-x     Document Type: Article

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