Probability of detecting perchlorate under natural conditions in deep groundwater in California and the Southwestern United States

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1271-1277

  Fram, Miranda S ^a   Belitz, Kenneth ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL SOURCES; AMBIENT MONITORING; ANTHROPOGENIC CONTRIBUTION; ARIDITY INDEX; CALIFORNIA; CATEGORICAL VARIABLES; DEEP GROUNDWATERS; DRINKING WATER SUPPLIES; LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELS; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; MODEL RESULTS; MULTIPLE THRESHOLD; NATURAL CONDITIONS; OCCURRENCE PATTERN; PERCHLORATE SALT; QUALITY PARAMETERS; SEMI-ARID CLIMATE; UNSATURATED ZONE;

ARID REGIONS; CLIMATE MODELS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); GROUNDWATER; POTABLE WATER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; WATER SUPPLY; WELLS;

PROBABILITY;

GROUND WATER; NITRATE; PERCHLORATE; PESTICIDE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; WELL WATER; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ARID REGION; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DRINKING WATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; LOGISTICS; PERCHLORATE; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WELL WATER;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; SEMIARID CLIMATE; UNITED STATES; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; WATER SUPPLY; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL; WATER POLLUTANT;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROUNDWATER; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NITRATES; PERCHLORATES; PROBABILITY; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 79951628665     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es103103p     Document Type: Article

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