Water quality indices from unbalanced spatio-temporal monitoring designs

Water Quality: Indicators, Human Impact and Environmental Health

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1-30

  Raican, Sarah M ^a   Wang, You Gan ^a,b   Harch, Bronwyn ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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