Assessment of temporal variation in water quality of some important rivers in middle Gangetic plains, India

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 174, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 401-415

  Rani, Nipunika ^a   Sinha, Ravindra Kumar ^a   Prasad, Kriteshwar ^a   Kedia, Dilip Kumar ^a  

^a PATNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Discriminant analysis; Gandak River; Ghaghra River; River water quality; Seasonal variation; Sone River

Indexed keywords

GANDAK RIVER; GHAGHRA RIVER; RIVER WATER QUALITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SONE RIVER;

ALKALINITY; CATCHMENTS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PH; RUNOFF; SODIUM; SODIUM SULFATE; TEMPERATURE; TURBIDITY; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

RIVERS;

CALCIUM; PHOSPHATE; SODIUM; SULFATE;

ALKALINITY; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; PH; RIVER WATER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SULFATE; TURBIDITY; WATER QUALITY;

ALKALINITY; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CATCHMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DISSOLUTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INDIA; PH MEASUREMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; STREAM (RIVER); TURBIDITY; VALIDATION PROCESS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; WATER TEMPERATURE;

FRESH WATER; INDIA; SEASONS; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES;

GANGES RIVER; GANGETIC PLAIN; INDIA;

EID: 84864851989     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-010-1465-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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