Ground water solute transport, optimal remediation planning, and decision making under uncertainty

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-12

  Medina Jr , Miguel A ^b   Jacobs, Timothy L ^b   Lin, Weichao ^b   Lin, Kuo Ching ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Decision making; Ground water hydrology; Optimization; Solute mass transport; Uncertainty; Water quality

Indexed keywords

GROUND WATER HYDROLOGY; GROUND WATER QUALITY MODELING ADVISORY SYSTEM; GROUND WATER SOLUTE TRANSPORT; UNCERTAINTY;

ALGORITHMS; CONTAMINATION; DECISION MAKING; GROUNDWATER; IMPURITIES; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PLANNING; WATER QUALITY;

HYDROLOGY;

EID: 0030087577     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1996.tb03429.x     Document Type: Article

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