An overview of a multimedia benchmarking analysis for three risk assessment models: RESRAD, MMSOILS, and MEPAS

Risk Analysis

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 203-214

  Laniak, Gerard F ^a   Droppo, James G ^b   Faillace, Ernest R ^c   Gnanapragasam, Emmanuel K ^c   Mills, William B ^d   Strenge, Dennis L ^b   Whelan, Gene ^b   Yu, Charley ^c  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d TETRA TECH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

And multipathway analysis; Benchmarking; Model comparison; Multimedia modeling

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; CONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER POLLUTION;

COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS;

HEALTH RISKS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HEALTH HAZARD; MODEL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ALGORITHMS; CONSERVATION OF ENERGY RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FORECASTING; GOVERNMENT AGENCIES; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HEALTH; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIMEDIA; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SOIL POLLUTANTS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; WATER POLLUTANTS;

EID: 0031127876     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.1997.tb00859.x     Document Type: Article

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