Quantifying the influence of uncertainty and variability on groundwater risk assessment for trace elements

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 668-678

  Altfelder, Sven ^a   Duijnisveld, Wilhelmus H M ^a   Streck, Thilo ^b   Meyenburg, Gunnar ^a   Utermann, Jens ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HEAVY METAL; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL VARIATION; TRACE ELEMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 34548380021     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2006.0148     Document Type: Article

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