Backward probability model using multiple observations of contamination to identify groundwater contamination sources at the Massachusetts Military Reservation

Water Resources Research

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 1-14

  Neupauer, R M ^a,c   Wilson, J L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; CONTAMINATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SAMPLING;

BACKWARD PROBABILITY MODELS; BAYES' THEOREM; TRAVEL TIME;

GROUNDWATER;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; POLLUTANT SOURCE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

MASSACHUSETTS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 15444363324     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003WR002974     Document Type: Article

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