A geostatistical approach to recover the release history of groundwater pollutants

Water Resources Research

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2003, Pages

  Butera, Ilaria ^a   Tanda, Maria Giovanna ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Geostatistical approach; Groundwater pollution; Inverse problem; Pollutant release; Transport and dispersion

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AQUIFERS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); GROUNDWATER; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

GEOSTATISTICAL METHODOLOGY; POLLUTANTS;

WATER POLLUTION;

ALGORITHM; AQUIFER; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; AQUIFER; GEOSTATISTICS; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 1242299644     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003WR002314     Document Type: Article

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