Seasonal changes of spatial variation of some groundwater quality variables in a large irrigated coastal Mediterranean region of Turkey

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 554-555, Issue , 2016, Pages 53-63

  Kurunc, Ahmet ^a   Ersahin, Sabit ^b   Sonmez, Namik K ^a   Kaman, Harun ^a   Uz, Ilker ^a   Uz, Buket Y ^a   Aslan, Gulcin E ^a  

^a AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b CANKIRI KARATEKIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Geostatistics; Groundwater electrical conductivity; Groundwater table depth; Mediterranean; Nitrate pollution; Spatial variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959537026     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.02.158     Document Type: Article

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