Evaluation of spatio-temporal trends of groundwater quality in different land uses using Kendall test

Geosciences Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 65-75

  Kaown, Dugin ^a   Hyun, Yunjung ^b   Bae, Gwang Ok ^a   Oh, Chang Whan ^c   Lee, Kang Kun ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Environment Institute (KEI)   (South Korea)

^c Chonbuk National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

agriculture; groundwater quality; land use; nitrate; regional Kendall analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863390313     PISSN: 12264806     EISSN: 15987477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12303-012-0009-4     Document Type: Article

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