A comparative chemometric study for water quality expertise of the Athenian water reservoirs

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 184, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 7635-7652

  Farmaki, Eleni G ^a,b   Thomaidis, Nikolaos S ^a   Simeonov, Vasil ^c   Efstathiou, Constantinos E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Athens Water Supply and Sewerage Company EYDAP SA   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Chemometrics; Classification; Modeling; Sampling site reduction; Water management; Water quality

Indexed keywords

ATHENS , GREECE; CHEMOMETRIC STUDIES; CHEMOMETRICES; CHEMOMETRICS; CLASSIFICATION ABILITY; CLASSIFICATION TREES; CRITICAL VARIABLES; DATA SETS; INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS; INDUSTRIAL WATER SUPPLY; LOW LEVEL; OPTIMIZATION STRATEGY; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING POINTS; SAMPLING SITE; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; SUPERVISED PATTERN RECOGNITION; WATER MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; MODELS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

RESERVOIRS (WATER);

ALUMINUM; ARSENIC; BARIUM; BORON; CHROMIUM; COPPER; IRON; MANGANESE; METALLOID; NICKEL; VANADIUM; ZINC;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; POINT SOURCE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RESERVOIR; SAMPLING; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

ARTICLE; CHEMOMETRICS; CLASSIFICATION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; GREECE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; WATER SUPPLY;

CITIES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GREECE; METALS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTANTS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

ATHENS [ATTICA]; ATTICA; GREECE;

EID: 84871840280     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-012-2524-1     Document Type: Article

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