Chemometric characterization of river water quality

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 185, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 3081-3092

  Kumari, Menka ^a   Tripathi, Smriti ^a   Pathak, Vinita ^a   Tripathi, B D ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Physicochemical parameters; Water pollution

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMANDS (BOD); ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; HIERARCHICAL AGGLOMERATIVE CLUSTER ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS; POLLUTANT CONCENTRATION; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS;

ALKALINITY; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION METHODS; EFFLUENTS; LEAD; NICKEL; PH; SEWAGE; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; ZINC;

RIVERS;

CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; IRON; LEAD; NICKEL; NITRATE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHATE; RIVER WATER; ZINC; OXYGEN;

ACIDITY; ALKALINITY; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COPPER; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; EFFLUENT; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; IRON; LEAD; NICKEL; NITRATE; PH; PHOSPHATE; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVER WATER; SEWAGE; WATER QUALITY; WATER TEMPERATURE; ZINC;

ACIDITY; ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMOMETRICS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; CHEMISTRY; INDIA; METHODOLOGY; PH; RIVER; WATER POLLUTANT;

GANGES RIVER; INDIA; UTTAR PRADESH; VARANASI;

BIOLOGICAL OXYGEN DEMAND ANALYSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INDIA; NITRATES; OXYGEN; PHOSPHATES; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84876346776     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-012-2774-y     Document Type: Article

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