Application of interval clustering approach to water quality evaluation

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 491, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-12

  Wong, H ^a   Hu, B Q ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Grey clustering approach (GCA); Interval valued fuzzy set; Water quality criteria; Water quality evaluation (WQE); Water quality index (WQI)

Indexed keywords

GREY CLUSTERING; INTERVAL-VALUED FUZZY SETS; WATER QUALITY CRITERIA; WATER QUALITY EVALUATION; WATER QUALITY INDEXES;

FUZZY SETS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; RIVERS;

WATER QUALITY;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; INDEX METHOD; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIVER WATER; WATER QUALITY;

CHINA; FEN RIVER; SHANXI; YELLOW RIVER;

EID: 84877649629     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.03.009     Document Type: Article

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