A geostatistical approach for quantification of contaminant mass discharge uncertainty using multilevel sampler measurements

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Li, K Betty ^a   Goovaerts, Pierre ^b   Abriola, Linda M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b BIOMEDWARE INC   (United States)

^c Tufts University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MASS TRANSFER; MEASUREMENT THEORY; NUMERICAL METHODS;

MASS DISCHARGE; SIMULATION ALGORITHM;

DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS);

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MASS TRANSFER; MEASUREMENT THEORY; NUMERICAL METHODS;

DISCHARGE; GEOSTATISTICS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; POLLUTANT; REMEDIATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 34547292478     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR005427     Document Type: Article

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