Comparison of the johnson-ettinger vapor intrusion screening model predictions with full three-dimensional model results

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2227-2235

  Yao, Yijun ^a   Shen, Rui ^a   Pennell, Kelly G ^a,b   Suuberg, Eric M ^a  

^a Brown University   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts Dartmouth   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D MODELS; E-MODEL; FIELD DATA; FINITE ELEMENT CALCULATIONS; HOMOGENEOUS SOIL; SCREENING MODELS; SCREENING TOOL; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; VAPOR INTRUSION; VAPOR INTRUSION MODELS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FORECASTING; GEOLOGIC MODELS; VAPORS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HOMOGENEITY; LITERATURE REVIEW; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARTICLE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; JOHNSON ETTINGER VAPOR INTRUSION SCREENING MODEL; SIMULATION; SOIL CHEMISTRY; VAPOR;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GASES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 79953888337     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es102602s     Document Type: Article

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