Classification of nitrate polluting activities through clustering of isotope mixing model outputs

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1486-1497

  Xue, Dongmei ^a   De Baets, Bernard ^a   Cleemput, Oswald Van ^a   Hennessy, Carmel ^b   Berglund, Michael ^b   Boeckx, Pascal ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREE MODELING; DEGREE OF UNCERTAINTY; K-MEANS CLUSTERING ALGORITHM; MONITORING LOCATIONS; PHYSICO-CHEMICAL DATA; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS; SOURCE APPORTIONMENT; STABLE-ISOTOPE ANALYSIS;

DATA MINING; DECISION TREES; FERTILIZERS; ISOTOPES; NITRATES; RAIN; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

FERTILIZER; NITRATE; NITROGEN 15; OXYGEN 18; RAIN; STABLE ISOTOPE; SURFACE WATER; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; WATER POLLUTANT;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; DECISION TREE; DENITRIFICATION; LEARNING ALGORITHM; MANURE; PH; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POLLUTION; PRECIPITATION; RIVER BASIN; SEWAGE; TEMPERATURE; UNCERTAINTY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; RIVER; WATER POLLUTANT;

BAYES THEOREM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NITRATES; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84884919277     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: 15372537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2012.0456     Document Type: Article

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