Metric concepts and implications in describing compositional changes for world river's water chemistry

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 670-676

  Buccianti, A ^a   Magli, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Compositions; Distance; River geochemistry; Simplex space

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC OPERATIONS; APPLICATION EXAMPLES; COMPOSITIONAL CHANGES; COMPOSITIONS; CONFIDENCE REGION; DISTANCE; EUCLIDEAN; EUCLIDEAN SPACES; INNER PRODUCT; MIXING MODELS; REAL-SPACE; RIVER INPUT; SAMPLE SPACE; SIMPLEX SPACE; VECTOR SPACE STRUCTURES; WATER CHEMISTRY;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GEOCHEMISTRY; RIVERS; SPACE PLATFORMS; VECTORS;

VECTOR SPACES;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RIVER WATER; WATER CHEMISTRY;

EID: 79955475793     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2010.04.017     Document Type: Article

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