Groundwater Quality Zonation Assessment using GIS, EOFs and Hierarchical Clustering

Water Resources Management

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2465-2481

  El Hames, A S ^a   Hannachi, A ^b   Al Ahmadi, M ^a   Al Amri, N ^a  

^a KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chemical constituents; Groundwater quality; Hierarchical clustering; TDS

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; NANOFLUIDICS; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; WATER QUALITY;

CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; GIS SOFTWARE; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE REGRESSIONS; QUALITY CLUSTERING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION MAP; TOTAL DISSOLVED SALTS;

HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING;

AQUIFER; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GIS; GROUNDWATER; KRIGING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84876439498     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-013-0297-0     Document Type: Article

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