Assessment of river water quality in Pearl River Delta using multivariate statistical techniques

Procedia Environmental Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 1220-1234

  Fan, Xiaoyun ^a   Cui, Baoshan ^a   Zhao, Hui ^a   Zhang, Zhiming ^a   Zhang, Honggang ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

cluster analysis; Pearl River Delta; principal component analysis; Water quality

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC POLLUTION; DATA SETS; EAST RIVER; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; LIGHT POLLUTION; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; PCA ANALYSIS; PEARL RIVER DELTA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; RIVER WATER; RIVER WATER QUALITY; SPATIAL PATTERNS; THREE COMPONENT; TOTAL VARIANCE;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA HANDLING; ECOSYSTEMS; GEMS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; POLLUTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; RATING; RIVERS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

RIVER POLLUTION;

EID: 79951795989     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18780296     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proenv.2010.10.133     Document Type: Conference Paper

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