Water Quality Management Based on Division of Dry and Wet Seasons in Pearl River Delta, China

Clean - Soil, Air, Water

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 381-393

  Fan, Xiaoyun ^a   Cui, Baoshan ^a   Zhang, Kejiang ^b   Zhang, Zhiming ^a   Shao, Hongbo ^c  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c YANTAI INSTITUTE OF COASTAL ZONE RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

Multivariate statistic methods; Pollution; Water resources; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIALIZATION; POLLUTANT SOURCE; RIVER MANAGEMENT; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVER WATER; SEASONAL VARIATION; URBANIZATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCE; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; ZHUJIANG DELTA;

EID: 84859605940     PISSN: 18630650     EISSN: 18630669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clen.201100123     Document Type: Article

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