Investigating hydrochemistry of groundwater in Indo-Gangetic alluvial plain using multivariate chemometric approaches

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 6001-6015

  Singh, Kunwar P ^a,b   Gupta, Shikha ^a,b   Rai, Premanjali ^a,b  

^a ACADEMY OF SCIENTIFIC AND INNOVATIVE RESEARCH ACSIR   (India)

^b CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Chemical oxygen demand; Chemometric approaches; Ensemble learning; Groundwater hydrochemistry; Source identification; Statistical methods

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL PLAIN; ARRAY; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DATA SET; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROCHEMISTRY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PH; REDOX POTENTIAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

GANGETIC PLAIN; INDIA; KANPUR; UTTAR PRADESH;

GROUND WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDIA; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROUNDWATER; INDIA; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84899460257     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-014-2517-4     Document Type: Article

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