Geostatistical techniques to evaluate groundwater contamination and its sources in Miryang City, Korea

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 75, Issue 11, 2016, Pages

  Venkatramanan, Senapathi ^a   Chung, Sang Yong ^a   Kim, Tae Hyung ^b   Kim, Byung Woo ^b   Selvam, Sekar ^c  

^a Pukyong National University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Water Resources Corporation   (South Korea)

^c V O CHIDAMBARAM COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Factor analysis; Geostatistical techniques; Groundwater contamination; Kriging; Residual saline water

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CALCIUM; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTAMINATION; FACE RECOGNITION; FACTOR ANALYSIS; GEOCHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROCHEMISTRY; INTERPOLATION; IRRIGATION; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SALINE WATER; SEWAGE; SODIUM;

ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY; CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTIC; CONTAMINATION SOURCES; GEOSTATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION; KRIGING; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION MAP;

GROUNDWATER GEOCHEMISTRY;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; GEOSTATISTICS; GIS; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; KRIGING; MAPPING METHOD; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION CONTROL; POLLUTION MONITORING; SALINITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER QUALITY;

MIRYANG; SOUTH KOREA; SOUTH KYONGSANG;

EID: 84975263412     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-016-5813-0     Document Type: Article

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