Lake water quality assessment: a case study of Shahu Lake in the semiarid loess area of northwest China

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2017, Pages

  Wu, Jianhua ^a   Xue, Chenyang ^a   Tian, Rui ^a   Wang, Siting ^a  

^a CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Entropy weight; Lake water; Loess area; Seasonal variation; Water pollution; Water quality index

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; DECISION MAKING; ENTROPY; IMPURITIES; IRRIGATION; LAKES; MOTOR BOATS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLLUTION; RIVER POLLUTION; SEDIMENTS; SURFACE WATERS; TRACE ELEMENTS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ENTROPY WEIGHTS; LAKE WATERS; LOESS AREA; SEASONAL VARIATION; WATER QUALITY INDEXES;

LAKE POLLUTION;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ENTROPY; INDEX METHOD; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; LAKE WATER; LOESS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEMIARID REGION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

CHINA;

EID: 85015025221     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-017-6516-x     Document Type: Article

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