Research Article
Hydrochemical Denudation and Transient Carbon Dioxide Drawdown in the Highly Glacierized, Shrinking Koxkar Basin, China
Table 2
Joint empirical orthogonal function analysis of the major ion concentrations of the river samples collected in the Koxkar basin.
| Item | EOF1 | EOF2 | EOF3 | EOF4 |
| Na+ | 0.811 | −0.560 | −0.273 | 0.073 | K+ | 0.829 | −0.535 | −0.215 | 0.087 | Mg2+ | 0.832 | −0.541 | −0.114 | 0.108 | Ca2+ | 0.676 | 0.024 | 0.722 | −0.129 | F− | 0.574 | 0.655 | 0.188 | 0.407 | Cl− | 0.833 | 0.615 | −0.258 | −0.142 | | 0.850 | 0.582 | −0.086 | 0.096 | | 0.795 | 0.418 | −0.155 | −0.672 | | 0.775 | −0.486 | 0.599 | 0.046 |
| Total variance explained (%) | 35.67 | 26.02 | 17.66 | 14.81 |
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