Flow guided interpolation - A GIS-based method to represent contaminant concentration distributions in groundwater

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1769-1780

  Morio, M ^a   Finkel, M ^a   Martac, E ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Tgag Tübinger Gesellschaft für Angewandte Geowissenschaften eV ^*  (Germany)

^c Geo log GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chlorinated hydrocarbons; Contaminant transport; GIS; Groundwater contamination; Interpolation; Numerical groundwater flow modeling; Ordinary kriging; Particle tracking; TCE

Indexed keywords

CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT; GIS; GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION; NUMERICAL GROUNDWATER FLOW MODELING; ORDINARY KRIGING; PARTICLE TRACKING; TCE;

CONTAMINATION; FLOW CONTROL; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROCARBONS; INTERPOLATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

DATA SET; FLOW FIELD; FLOW MODELING; GIS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; INTERPOLATION; KRIGING; MILITARY LAND; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICLE MOTION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SAMPLING; SEGMENTATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

BERLIN; BRANDENBURG; GERMANY; POTSDAM;

EID: 77956614840     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2010.05.018     Document Type: Article

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