Complexity in multimedia mass balance models: When are simple models adequate and when are more complex models necessary?

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1404-1412

  Cahill, Thomas M ^a   Mackay, Donald ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Complexity; Fugacity model; Multimedia model; Persistence

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; WATER POLLUTION;

CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; BENZENE; CARBARIL; CHLORPYRIFOS; GLYPHOSATE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; MALATHION; METHOXYCHLOR; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; TRIFLURALIN;

COMPLEXITY; MASS BALANCE; MULTIMEDIA; PERSISTENCE;

AIR; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; MODEL; MULTIMEDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOIL;

AIR MOVEMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FORECASTING; KINETICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 0042818085     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(2003)022<1404:CIMMBM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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