Sources of uncertainty in pesticide fate modelling

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 317, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 53-72

  Dubus, Igor G ^a,b   Brown, Colin D ^a   Beulke, Sabine ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BRGM   (France)

Author keywords

Leaching; Model; Monte carlo; Pesticide; Probabilistic; Sensitivity; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PESTICIDES; PROBABILITY;

EXPOSURE ASSESMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

PESTICIDE;

LEACHING; MODELING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PESTICIDE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EXPOSURE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUTUROLOGY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0242636569     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(03)00362-0     Document Type: Article

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