Uncertainty analysis on simple mass balance model to calculate critical loads for soil acidity

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 315-326

  Li, Harbin ^a   McNulty, Steven G ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical load; Error partition; Sensitivity; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

ACIDITY; AIR POLLUTION; ECOSYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHERING;

CRITICAL LOADS; ERROR PARTITION; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL TEMPERATURE;

SOIL MECHANICS;

BASE;

ACID SOIL; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CRITICAL LOAD; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST SOIL; MASS BALANCE; MODELING; NEUTRALIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL TEMPERATURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHERING;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST SOIL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL ACIDITY; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL TEMPERATURE; WEATHERING;

ACIDS; AIR POLLUTION; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOMASS; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 34548255521     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2007.05.014     Document Type: Article

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