Tracer attenuation in groundwater

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Cvetkovic, Vladimir ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLED TRANSPORT; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FIELD SCALE; HYDRODYNAMIC TRANSPORT; IRREVERSIBLE LOSS; MACRODISPERSION; NON-FICKIAN; RETENTION MECHANISM; THEORETICAL MODELS; WATER-BORNE CONTAMINANTS;

AQUIFERS; CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; IMPURITIES;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

AQUIFER; CRYSTALLINE ROCK; DIFFUSION; DISPERSION; DISSOLVED MATTER; HYDRODYNAMICS; NATURAL ATTENUATION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; PURIFICATION; TRACER; TRANSFORMATION;

EID: 84855453822     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010999     Document Type: Article

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