Understanding processes governing water quality in catchments using principal component scores

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 486, Issue , 2013, Pages 31-38

  Selle, Benny ^a   Schwientek, Marc ^a   Lischeid, Gunnar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE RESEARCH ZALF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dominant process concept; End member mixing analysis; Groundwater surface water interaction; Hydrogeochemistry; Multivariate statistics; Watershed

Indexed keywords

DOMINANT PROCESS; END-MEMBER MIXING ANALYSIS; GROUND WATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTIONS; HYDRO GEOCHEMISTRIES; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS;

AQUIFERS; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; MIXING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; RUNOFF; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

CATCHMENTS;

AQUIFER; CATCHMENT; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA SET; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; MIXING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPRING WATER; TRIBUTARY; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

AMMER RIVER; BAVARIA; GERMANY;

EID: 84875544447     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.01.030     Document Type: Article

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