Multivariate statistical analysis for identifying water quality and hydrogeochemical evolution of shallow groundwater in Quaternary deposits in the Lower Kelantan River Basin, Malaysian Peninsula
Date
2016
Authors
Nur Hayati Hussin
Ismail Yusoff
Wan Zakaria Wan Muhd Tahir
Ibrahim Mohamed
Adriana Irawati Nur Ibrahim
Adzhar Rambli
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Publisher
Springer
Abstract
A long-term hydrogeochemical data set is used in this study to evaluate the water quality and hydrogeochemical evolution of shallow groundwater in a Quaternary deposit. A multivariate statistical method, hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA), is applied to overcome the problem of a large number of data points in the integration, interpretation and representation of the results. HCA is applied to a subgroup of the hydrogeochemical data set to evaluate their usefulness to classify the groundwater bodies.
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Keywords
Hydrogeochemistry, Water quality, Groundwater evolution, Hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA), Quaternary deposits of Lower Kelantan River Basin
Citation
Hussin, N. H., Yusoff, I., Wan Muhd Tahir, W. Z., Mohamed, I., Ibrahim, A. I. N., & Rambli, A. (2016). Multivariate statistical analysis for identifying water quality and hydrogeochemical evolution of shallow groundwater in Quaternary deposits in the Lower Kelantan River Basin, Malaysian Peninsula. Environmental Earth Sciences, 75, 1-16.