Errors in NAPL volume estimates due to systematic measurement errors during partitioning tracer tests

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 7164-7169

  Brooks, Michael C ^a   Wise, William R ^b  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION);

MOMENT-BASED ANALYSES; YIELD ERRORS;

ERROR ANALYSIS;

TRACER;

ERROR ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUID; PARTITIONING;

ACCURACY; ANALYSIS; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONSTANT CONCENTRATION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; LABORATORY TEST; MEASUREMENT; MOMENT BASE ANALYSIS; NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUID; NONDIMENSIONAL CONCENTRATION; PARTITIONING TRACER TEST; PROPORTIONAL VOLUME; SYSTEMATIC CONSTANT VOLUME; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; VOLUMETRY;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SOLVENTS; TIME FACTORS; WATER POLLUTANTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 25144444118     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es048739m     Document Type: Article

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