Assessment of river water quality via environmentric multivariate statistical tools and water quality index: A case study of Nakdong River Basin, Korea

Carpathian Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 125-132

  Venkatramanan, Senapathi ^a   Chung, Sang Yong ^a   Lee, Seung Yeop ^b   Park, Namsik ^c  

^a Pukyong National University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute   (South Korea)

^c Dong A University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis (CA); Correlation analysis; Factor analysis (FA); Water quality index (WQI)

Indexed keywords

BASIN MANAGEMENT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION; FACTOR ANALYSIS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INDEX METHOD; IRRIGATION; PH; RIVER BASIN; RIVER WATER; SURFACE WATER; WATER QUALITY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

NAKDONG RIVER; SOUTH KOREA;

EID: 84898013540     PISSN: 18424090     EISSN: 1844489X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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