An Integrated Simulation-Assessment Approach for Evaluating Health Risks of Groundwater Contamination Under Multiple Uncertainties

Water Resources Management

Volumn 24, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 3349-3369

  Yang, A L ^a   Huang, G H ^a,b   Qin, X S ^c  

^a NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Carcinogenic risk; Fuzzy risk assessment; Fuzzy vertex; Latin hypercube sampling; Monte Carlo simulation

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGENIC RISK; FUZZY RISK; FUZZY VERTEX; LATIN HYPERCUBE SAMPLING; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION;

BENZENE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTAMINATION; FUZZY INFERENCE; GEOMETRY; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HEALTH; HYDROCARBONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

HEALTH RISKS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BENZENE; CARCINOGEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HEALTH RISK; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84755161386     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-010-9610-3     Document Type: Article

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