Cyclic exchanges and level of coupling between environmental media: Intermedia feedback in multimedia fate models

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 38, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 5450-5457

  Margni, M ^a   Pennington, D W ^a   Bennett, D H ^b   Jolliet, O ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; DEPOSITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; RATE CONSTANTS;

FEEDBACK CORRECTION FACTOR; MASS BALANCE EQUATIONS; MULTIPATHWAY FEEDBACK;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

COUPLING; MODELING; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COUPLING FACTOR; DEGRADATION; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; MODEL; NONHUMAN; STEADY STATE; TECHNIQUE;

AIR; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEEDBACK; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; SOIL; TIME FACTORS; WATER;

EID: 6344258219     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es049716a     Document Type: Article

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