Quantitative assessment of intrinsic groundwater vulnerability to contamination using numerical simulations

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 245-254

  Neukum, Christoph ^a   Azzam, Rafig ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Groundwater quality; Groundwater vulnerability; Modeling; Vadose zone; Water management

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHODS; BREAK THROUGH CURVE; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP; GROUND SURFACES; GROUND WATER RECHARGE; GROUND WATER TABLE; GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION; GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT; GROUNDWATER QUALITY; GROUNDWATER VULNERABILITY; HYDROGEOLOGICAL; HYDROLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; LAYER THICKNESS; LOWER BOUNDARY; MODELING; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PERCOLATION WATER; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; SIMULATION RESULT; SITE-SPECIFIC; SOLUTE CONCENTRATIONS; TEMPORAL SHAPE; TIME PERIODS; TRANSIT TIME; UNSATURATED ZONE; VADOSE ZONE; VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS; VULNERABILITY INDICATORS; WATER FLOWS;

FLOW OF WATER; FLOW SIMULATION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDRAULIC MODELS; HYDRAULICS; HYDROGEOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIMULATORS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SOLVENTS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

GROUNDWATER;

GROUND WATER;

GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROGEOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; VADOSE ZONE; VULNERABILITY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; DILUTION; HYDROLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER FLOW; WATER MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRESH WATER; MODELS, CHEMICAL; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 71749086671     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.09.046     Document Type: Article

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