Assessment of temporal and spatial variation of coastal water quality and source identification along Macau peninsula

Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 353-361

  Huang, Jinliang ^a   Ho, Manhim ^b,c   Du, Pengfei ^b  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c The Official Provisional Municipal Council of Macau   (China)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Coastal water quality; Discriminant analysis; Macau peninsula; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

COASTAL WATER QUALITY; FECAL POLLUTION; MACAU PENINSULA; MONITORING NETWORK; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; ORGANIC POLLUTION; POLLUTION SOURCES; SOIL WEATHERING; SOURCE IDENTIFICATION; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIATION; WESTERN SIDE;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MARINE POLLUTION; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; POLLUTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

QUALITY CONTROL;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COASTAL WATER; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; POLLUTANT SOURCE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER QUALITY;

CHINA; MACAU;

EID: 79952007031     PISSN: 14363240     EISSN: 14363259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00477-010-0373-4     Document Type: Article

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