Intrinsic vulnerability assessment in karst areas: A numerical modeling approach

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Butscher, Christoph ^a   Huggenberger, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; RUNOFF;

BREAKTHROUGH CURVES; CALIBRATED MODELS;

HYDROLOGY;

DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; RUNOFF;

AQUIFER; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; HYDROLOGY; KARST; NUMERICAL MODEL; VULNERABILITY; WATER STORAGE;

EID: 43249089414     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006277     Document Type: Article

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