Uncertainty assessment for management of soil contaminants with sparse data

Environmental Management

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 911-925

  Schnabel, Ute ^a   Tietje, Olaf ^a   Scholz, Roland W ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Conditional simulation; Lognormal ordinary kriging; Probability of occurrence; Sparse data; Uncertainty assessment

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; IMPURITIES; INTERPOLATION; MANAGEMENT;

SPARSE DATA; UNCERTAINTY ASSESSMENT;

SOILS;

CADMIUM;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CADMIUM; SMELTING; SOIL POLLUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION;

EID: 4344590551     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-003-2971-0     Document Type: Article

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