Identifying sources of a conservative groundwater contaminant using backward probabilities conditioned on measured concentrations

Water Resources Research

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Neupauer, Roseanna M ^a   Lin, Ranhao ^b,c  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c TD Securities   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; CONTAMINATION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

BACKWARD PROBABILITIES; CONDITIONING EQUATIONS; GROUNDWATER CONTAMINANTS; SOLUTE;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

AQUIFERS; CONTAMINATION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

EID: 33646520585     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004115     Document Type: Article

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