Vapour intrusion from the vadose zone-seven algorithms compared

Journal of Soils and Sediments

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 473-483

  Provoost, Jeroen ^a   Bosman, Annelies ^b   Reijnders, Lucas ^c   Bronders, Jan ^a   Touchant, Kaatje ^a   Swartjes, Frank ^d  

^a FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

^b Hogeschool West Vlaanderen   (Belgium)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Algorithm; CSoil; DF Norway; DF Sweden; Indoor air; Intrusion; JEM; Model; RISC; Soil air; Soil contamination; Vadose zone; Vapour; Vlier Humaan; VOC; VolaSoil

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; BASEMENT (BUILDING); FOUNDATION; HEALTH RISK; INDOOR AIR; SIMULATION; SOIL AIR; SOIL POLLUTION; SUBTERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; VADOSE ZONE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

NORWAY; SWEDEN;

EID: 77952291802     PISSN: 14390108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11368-009-0127-4     Document Type: Article

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