Modeling groundwater quality over a humid subtropical region using numerical indices, earth observation datasets, and X-ray diffraction technique: a case study of Allahabad district, India

Environmental Geochemistry and Health

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 157-180

  Singh, Sudhir Kumar ^a   Srivastava, Prashant K ^b,c,d   Singh, Dharmveer ^a   Han, Dawei ^d   Gautam, Sandeep Kumar ^e   Pandey, A C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD   (India)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Ganga basin; Multivariate analysis; Remote sensing and GIS; Synthetic pollution index; Water quality index; XRD

Indexed keywords

GROUND WATER; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

AGRICULTURE; ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; INDIA; INDUSTRY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEASON; SEDIMENT; URBANIZATION; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER QUALITY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

AGRICULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GROUNDWATER; INDIA; INDUSTRY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEASONS; URBANIZATION; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER QUALITY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84939885474     PISSN: 02694042     EISSN: 15732983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10653-014-9638-z     Document Type: Article

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