BETR global - A geographically-explicit global-scale multimedia contaminant fate model

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 159, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1442-1445

  MacLeod, Matthew ^a,f   Von Waldow, Harald ^a   Tay, Pascal ^a   Armitage, James M ^b,c   Wöhrnschimmel, Henry ^a   Riley, William J ^d   McKone, Thomas E ^d,e   Hungerbuhler, Konrad ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Fugacity; Global; Mass balance; Model; Transport

Indexed keywords

DECAMETHYLCYCLOPENTASILOXANE; DESKTOP COMPUTER; FATE AND TRANSPORT; FATE MODEL; FUGACITY; GLOBAL; GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT; GLOBAL SOURCES; MASS BALANCE; MASS-BALANCE CALCULATIONS; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION; TRANSPORT;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

CHEMICAL COMPOUND; DECAMETHYLCYCLOPENTASILOXANE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DATABASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; FUGACITY; MASS BALANCE; ORGANIC POLLUTANT;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PREDICTION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POLLUTION MONITORING; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASES AS TOPIC; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; SILOXANES; SOFTWARE;

EID: 79954414893     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2011.01.038     Document Type: Article

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