A groundwater nonpoint source pollution modeling framework to evaluate long-term dynamics of pollutant exceedance probabilities in wells and other discharge locations

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Kourakos, George ^a   Klein, Frank ^a   Cortis, Andrea ^b   Harter, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER HETEROGENEITY; AQUIFER RECHARGE; AQUIFER SYSTEMS; DISPERSIVE BEHAVIORS; EFFECTIVE POROSITY; EXCEEDANCE PROBABILITY; EXTERNAL SOURCES; GROUND WATER DISCHARGE; GROUNDWATER BASINS; GROUNDWATER MODELING; LONG TERM DYNAMICS; LONG-TERM EFFECTS; MODELING FRAMEWORKS; NITRATE SOURCES; NON-POINT SOURCE; NON-POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; NPS POLLUTION; PRODUCTION WELLS; PUMPING RATE; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; WELL CONSTRUCTIONS; WELL DESIGN;

AGRICULTURE; AQUIFERS; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; NITRATES; OIL WELL DRILLING; POLLUTION; WELLS;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AQUIFER CHARACTERIZATION; AQUIFER POLLUTION; BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; COMPLIANCE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MIXING; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; PROBABILITY; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WELL WATER;

EID: 84861147703     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010813     Document Type: Article

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