Water quality variation in the highly disturbed Huai River Basin, China from 1994 to 2005 by multi-statistical analyses

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 496, Issue , 2014, Pages 594-606

  Zhai, Xiaoyan ^a   Xia, Jun ^a   Zhang, Yongyong ^b  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Huai River Basin; Moran's I; Regression analysis; Seasonal Mann Kendall; Water quality trends

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DETERIORATION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; LAND USE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY MANAGEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVERS; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY; HUAI RIVERS; MANN-KENDALL; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER QUALITY DETERIORATION; WATER QUALITY TRENDS; WATER QUALITY VARIATIONS;

RIVER POLLUTION;

AMMONIA; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; NITROGEN; PERMANGANATE POTASSIUM; WATER POLLUTANT;

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLLUTION CONTROL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY; TREND ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; CHINA; LAND USE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVER BASIN; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER FLOW; WATER QUALITY; WATER TEMPERATURE; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION;

CHINA; HUAI BASIN; SHAYING RIVER;

CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84905442277     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.06.101     Document Type: Article

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