On the link between contaminant source release conditions and plume prediction uncertainty

Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

Volumn 116, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 24-34

  De Barros, Felipe P J ^a   Nowak, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conditioning; Contaminant dispersion; Heterogeneous porous media; Stochastic hydrogeology; Stream function statistics

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONING; CONTAMINANT DISPERSION; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA; STOCHASTIC HYDROGEOLOGY; STREAMFUNCTIONS;

CONTAMINATION; GEOMETRY; GROUNDWATER; HYDRAULICS; HYDROGEOLOGY; POROUS MATERIALS; RIVER POLLUTION; STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

DISPERSIONS;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONDITIONING; DISPERSION; GEOSTATISTICS; HETEROGENEITY; HYDROGEOLOGY; PLUME; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POROUS MEDIUM; PREDICTION; SAMPLING; STOCHASTICITY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; GEOMETRY; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PLUME DISPERSION; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POLLUTION; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY; WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTANT;

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; UNCERTAINTY; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS;

WATER POLLUTANT;

EID: 77955659974     PISSN: 01697722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2010.05.004     Document Type: Article

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