Numerical modelling of groundwater vulnerability: The example Namibia

Environmental Geology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 237-249

  Schwartz, M O ^a  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Groundwater vulnerability; Namibia; Numerical model; Physically based model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; SEDIMENTS;

GROUNDWATER VULNERABILITY; NAMIBIA; NUMERICAL MODELS; PHYSICALLY BASED MODEL;

GROUNDWATER;

FRACTURE; GROUNDWATER FLOW; POROSITY; ROCK; VADOSE ZONE; VULNERABILITY;

AFRICA; NAMIBIA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33646493204     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-006-0204-6     Document Type: Article

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