Risk assessment of groundwater pollution using sensitivity analysis and a worst-case scenario analysis

Environmental Geology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 180-193

  Huysmans, Marijke ^a   Madarász, Tamás ^b   Dassargues, Alain ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISKOLC   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Groundwater and transport modeling; Groundwater pollution; Sensitivity analysis; Worst case scenario analysis

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POTABLE WATER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

GROUNDWATER AND TRANSPORT MODELING; TRANSPORT MODEL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WORST-CASE SCENARIO ANALYSIS;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

DRINKING WATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; HUNGARY;

EID: 33646482598     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-006-0197-1     Document Type: Article

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