Quantitative analysis of physical and geotechnical factors affecting methane emission in municipal solid waste landfill

Environmental Geology

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1135-1143

  Tecle, Dawit ^a   Lee, Jejung ^a   Hasan, Syed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contaminant dispersion; Geoscience; Geostatistics

Indexed keywords

CLAY MINERALS; GEOLOGY; LAND FILL; METHANE; MOISTURE; MOISTURE CONTROL; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOILS; SOLID WASTES; WASTE DISPOSAL;

BIOLOGICAL COMPONENTS; CLAY CONTENTS; CONTAMINANT DISPERSION; CONTROLLING FACTORS; GEOSCIENCE; GEOSTATISTICS; GEOTECHNICAL FACTORS; IN-SITU; KRIGING; MEASURE IN SITU; METHANE EMISSIONS; MOISTURE CONTENT MEASUREMENTS; MOISTURE CONTENTS; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE LANDFILLS; POLYNOMIAL REGRESSIONS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSES; SOIL ATTRIBUTES; SOIL COVERS; SOIL GRAINS; SOIL TEMPERATURES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF; SPATIAL PATTERNS; TEMPORAL CORRELATIONS; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; UNIFORMITY COEFFICIENTS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

GEOSTATISTICS; GRAIN SIZE; LANDFILL; METHANE; MOISTURE CONTENT; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION; SOIL COVER; SOLID WASTE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 58149352448     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-008-1214-3     Document Type: Article

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