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Application of desirability functions for water quality analysis

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A method was developed for the search of anomalies in water chemistry with the use of desirability functions. The method allows one to assess, in automatic mode, the degree of deviation of water chemistry from regional averages derived from field observation data in unpolluted water bodies in the region. The method was used to identify anomalous deviations of water ionic composition and N forms from regional averages for some water bodies in the Republic of Karelia (the Kenti River system, water bodies of Zaonezhskii Peninsula, Onega Lake), caused by both anthropogenic effect and specific natural conditions of water chemistry formation.

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  1. Institute of Water Problems of the North, Karelian Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, prosp. A. Nevskogo 50, Petrozavodsk, 185030, Russia

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Original Russian Text © M.B. Zobkov, 2012, published in Vodnye Resursy, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 63–70.

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Zobkov, M.B. Application of desirability functions for water quality analysis. Water Resour 39, 90–97 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0097807811060170

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