Influence of threshold value in the use of statistical methods for groundwater vulnerability assessment

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3836-3846

  Masetti, Marco ^a   Sterlacchini, Simone ^b   Ballabio, Cristiano ^c   Sorichetta, Alessandro ^a   Poli, Simone ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Groundwater vulnerability assessment; Milan; Nitrate; Statistical method; Threshold

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION SOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; GROUNDWATER VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT; KAPPA COEFFICIENTS; LIKELIHOOD RATIOS; MILAN; MODEL EFFICIENCIES; NITRATE CONCENTRATIONS; NORTHERN ITALY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; STUDY AREAS; THRESHOLD; THRESHOLD CONCENTRATIONS; UNCONFINED AQUIFERS; VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS; VULNERABILITY MAPS; VULNERABLE AREAS;

AQUIFERS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; NITRATES; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICS; UNDERGROUND RESERVOIRS; WELLS;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

GROUND WATER; NITRATE; RAIN; WELL WATER;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THRESHOLD; VULNERABILITY;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); KAPPA STATISTICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SAMPLING;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FERTILIZERS; FRESH WATER; IRRIGATION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NITRATES; POPULATION DENSITY; RAIN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LOMBARDY; MILAN; MILANO [LOMBARDY]; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 65049086171     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.01.055     Document Type: Article

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