Enhanced vulnerability assessment in karst areas by combining mapping with modeling approaches

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1153-1163

  Butscher, Christoph ^a   Huggenberger, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

3D geological modeling; Groundwater hydrology; Groundwater vulnerability; Karst; Numerical modeling

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; EARTH SCIENCES; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; PLANNING; POTABLE WATER; REGIONAL PLANNING; UNDERGROUND RESERVOIRS; WATER; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCES;

3D GEOLOGICAL MODELING; GROUNDWATER HYDROLOGY; GROUNDWATER VULNERABILITY; KARST; NUMERICAL MODELING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER; WATER;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DRINKING WATER; FLOW MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; KARST; MAPPING; NUMERICAL MODEL; RECHARGE; REGIONAL PLANNING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VULNERABILITY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

ARTICLE; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWITZERLAND;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FRESH WATER; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; SWITZERLAND; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GEMPEN PLATEAU; SOLOTHURN [SWITZERLAND]; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 57049122245     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.09.033     Document Type: Article

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