Identifying major factors affecting groundwater change in the North China plain with grey relational analysis

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1581-1600

  Li, Xue ^a,b   Li, Guomin ^a   Zhang, Yuan ^c,d,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c National Engineering Research Center of Urban Environmental Pollution Control The Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China   (China)

^d NANJING INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^e BEIJING MUNICIPAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

Grey relational analysis; Groundwater change; North china plain

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS;

ANTHROPOGENIC FACTORS; DENSELY POPULATED REGIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; GREY RELATIONAL ANALYSES (GRA); GREY RELATIONAL ANALYSIS; GROUNDWATER EXPLOITATION; GROUNDWATER TABLE DECLINE; NORTH CHINA PLAIN;

GROUNDWATER;

GROUNDWATER FLOW; HUMAN ACTIVITY; RECHARGE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WATER LEVEL; WATER PLANNING; WATER TABLE;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA PLAIN;

EID: 84901978301     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w6061581     Document Type: Article

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