Groundwater quality ranking for drinking purposes, using the entropy method and the spatial autocorrelation index

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 76, Issue 7, 2017, Pages

  Gorgij, Alireza Docheshmeh ^a   Kisi, Ozgur ^b   Moghaddam, Asghar Asghari ^a   Taghipour, Aliakbar ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

^b Ilia State University   (Georgia)

^c DAMGHAN UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Azarshahr Plain; Entropy theory; Groundwater quality; Spatial autocorrelation; World Health Organization

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; GROUNDWATER; POTABLE WATER;

AZARSHAHR PLAIN; EFFECTIVE PARAMETERS; ENTROPY METHODS; ENTROPY THEORY; EXPERT JUDGMENT; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATIONS; WATER QUALITY INDEXES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

WATER QUALITY;

AUTOCORRELATION; BICARBONATE; DRINKING WATER; ENTROPY; INDEX METHOD; NUMERICAL METHOD; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

IRAN;

EID: 85016806239     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-017-6589-6     Document Type: Article

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