Determination of first-order degradation rate constants from monitoring networks

Ground Water

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 774-785

  Beyer, Christof ^a   Chen, Cui ^a   Gronewold, Jan ^a   Kolditz, Olaf ^a   Bauer, Sebastian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DEGRADATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; RATE CONSTANTS; THERMAL PLUMES; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

CONTAMINANT PLUMES; CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITIES; MONITORING NETWORKS;

IMPURITIES;

AQUIFER POLLUTION; DEGRADATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FIELDWORK; HETEROGENEITY; MONITORING SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PLUME; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT;

ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTANT;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 35649025883     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2007.00348.x     Document Type: Article

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