Probabilistic modeling of one-dimensional water movement and leaching from highway embankments containing secondary materials

Environmental Engineering Science

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 156-169

  Apul, Defne ^a   Gardner, Kevin ^a   Eighmy, Taylor ^a   Linder, Ernst ^b   Frizzell, Tara ^b   Roberson, Ruth ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

^c MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Cadmium; Calibration; Coal fly ash; Fate and transport; Leaching; Probabilistic; Unsaturated

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; CALCIUM; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMBANKMENT DAMS; FLY ASH; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGY; LEACHING; ONE DIMENSIONAL; PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); PROBABILITY; SOILS; SOLUBILITY;

FIELD HYDROLOGY; GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION; WATER CONTENT; WATER MOVEMENT;

IMPURITIES;

CADMIUM; COAL; GROUND WATER;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BUILDING MATERIAL; FLY ASH; HIGHWAY; HYDROLOGY; LEACHING; PROBABILITY; PROCESS MODEL; SIMULATION; SOLUBILITY; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER FLOW; WATERSHED;

EID: 14644438535     PISSN: 10928758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ees.2005.22.156     Document Type: Article

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