Multivariate water quality assessment from the Tamiraparani river basin, Southern India

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2441-2451

  Kumarasamy, P ^a   Arthur James, R ^a,b   Dahms, Hans Uwe ^b   Byeon, Chan Woo ^b   Ramesh, R ^c  

^a BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Sangmyung University   (South Korea)

^c ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Box and Whisker plot; Cluster analysis; Factor analysis; Tamiraparani river; Water quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893825317     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-013-2644-0     Document Type: Article

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