Evaluation of water quality for the Nakdong River watershed using multivariate analysis

Environmental Technology and Innovation

Volumn 5, Issue , 2016, Pages 67-82

  Jung, Kang Young ^a   Lee, Kyung Lak ^a   Im, Toe Hyo ^a   Lee, In Jung ^a   Kim, Shin ^a   Han, Kun Yeun ^b   Ahn, Jung Min ^a  

^a Nakdong River Environment Research Center   (South Korea)

^b Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Factor analysis; Principal component analysis; The Nakdong River; Water quality; Water quality pollution level

Indexed keywords

EID: 85002710776     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23521864     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eti.2015.12.001     Document Type: Article

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