Water quality assessment and apportionment of pollution sources of Tigris River (Turkey) using multivariate statistical techniques-a case study

River Research and Applications

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1428-1438

  Varol, M ^a   Gokot B ^b   Bekleyen, A ^b   Sen B ^c  

^a Plant Protection Research Institute   (Turkey)

^b DICLE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Multivariate statistical techniques; Tigris River; Water pollution; Water quality

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVER WATER; TRANSBOUNDARY POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

TIGRIS RIVER; TURKEY;

EID: 84867980760     PISSN: 15351459     EISSN: 15351467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rra.1533     Document Type: Article

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