Modeling the long-term and transient evolution of biogeochemical and isotopic signatures in coal tar-contaminated aquifers

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  D'Affonseca, Fernando Mazo ^a   Prommer, Henning ^b,c   Finkel, Michael ^a   Blum, Philipp ^a,d   Grathwohl, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CONDITIONS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL RESPONSE; CARBON ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION; COMPLEX INTERACTION; COMPLEX ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; CRITICAL ELEMENTS; DATA COVER; DENSE NON-AQUEOUS PHASE LIQUIDS; GERMANY; ISOTOPE SIGNATURES; ISOTOPIC DATA; ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES; KEY PROCESS; LONG TERM DYNAMICS; MODEL FRAMEWORK; MODELING FRAMEWORKS; MODELING RESULTS; MONITORED NATURAL ATTENUATION; NATURAL ATTENUATION; NON-AQUEOUS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS; QUANTITATIVE MODELS; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; REACTIVE TRANSPORT MODELING; REDOX CONDITION; REMEDIATION STRATEGIES; SOURCE ZONE; TIME WINDOWS; TRANSIENT EVOLUTION; TRANSPORT TIME;

AQUIFERS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BITUMINOUS MATERIALS; COAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTAMINATION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; IMPURITIES; ISOTOPES; LAKES; LIQUIDS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

COAL TAR;

AQUIFER POLLUTION; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; COAL TAR; DATA SET; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HETEROGENEITY; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REDOX CONDITIONS; REMEDIATION; TIMESCALE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

GERMANY;

EID: 79957444452     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009108     Document Type: Article

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