Identifying homogeneous water quality regions in the Nile river using multivariate statistical analysis

Water Resources Management

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2039-2055

  Awadallah, Ayman G ^a   Yousry, Mohsen ^b  

^a Fayoum University   (Egypt)

^b NATIONAL WATER RESEARCH CENTER   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Cluster; Multivariate analysis; Nile river; Principal components; Water quality

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER; DEMOGRAPHIC DATA; HOMOGENEOUS REGIONS; HOMOGENOUS REGION; MATHEMATICAL MODELLING; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ORGANIC POLLUTION; ORGANIC SOURCES; POPULATION DATA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS; SAMPLING SITE; SEWAGE COLLECTION; WATER CONSUMPTION; WATER QUALITY DATA;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; POLLUTION; POPULATION STATISTICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RIVERS; SEWAGE; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

RIVER POLLUTION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTANT SOURCE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVER WATER; WATER QUALITY;

NILE RIVER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84860477614     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-012-9997-0     Document Type: Article

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