Percolation and particle transport in the unsaturated zone of a karst aquifer

Ground Water

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 361-369

  Pronk, Michiel ^a   Goldscheider, Nico ^a   Zopfi, Jakob ^a   Zwahlen, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA TRANSPORTS; CONTAMINANT TRANSPORTS; EARLY WARNINGS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITIES; EPIKARST; FECAL BACTERIA; FECAL INDICATOR BACTERIA; FINE PARTICLES; FLOW-THROUGH; INFILTRATED WATERS; KARST AQUIFERS; KARST WATERS; LAG PHASE; LAND SURFACES; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATIONS; PARTICLE TRANSFERS; PARTICLE TRANSPORTS; PARTICLE-SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; PRESSURE TRANSFERS; RAINFALL EVENTS; REMOBILIZATION; TRACER EXPERIMENTS; UNSATURATED ZONES; WATER PERCOLATIONS; WATER STORAGES;

AQUIFERS; BACTERIOLOGY; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CONTAMINATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FIRE HAZARDS; HYDROGEOLOGY; IRRIGATION; LANDFORMS; ORGANIC CARBON; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; PULSE SHAPING CIRCUITS; RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS); SOLVENTS; TURBIDITY;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

AQUIFER POLLUTION; DISCHARGE; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FECAL COLIFORM; IRRIGATION; KARST HYDROLOGY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NATURAL ATTENUATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PERCOLATION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RAINFALL; RECHARGE; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TRACER; TURBIDITY; VADOSE ZONE;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METHODOLOGY; SWITZERLAND; WATER FLOW; WATER SUPPLY;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SWITZERLAND; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER SUPPLY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA;

EID: 65449165345     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2008.00509.x     Document Type: Article

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