Improvement of leachate prediction through municipal solid waste layers

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1265-1278

  Uguccioni, Mark ^a,b   Zeiss, Chris ^a,b  

^a Stanley Environmental   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Groundwater hydrology; Leachate generation; Pollution modeling; Solid waste landfills; Two domain flow; Unsaturated flow modeling; Water balance method

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE;

HELP MODEL; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTES; PREFLO MODEL; UNSATURATED FLOW; WATER BALANCE MODELS;

LEACHATE TREATMENT;

FIELD CAPACITY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LEACHATE; MOISTURE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE;

EID: 0031434525     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1997.tb03551.x     Document Type: Article

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