Linking distribution system water quality issues to possible causes via hydraulic pathways

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 40, Issue , 2013, Pages 78-87

  Furnass, W R ^a   Mounce, S R ^a   Boxall, J B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data driven modelling; Distribution networks; GIS; PostGIS; Water quality

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL REACTION; CAUSE-EFFECT; DATA SETS; DETERMINISTIC MODELS; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; ENGLAND; FLOW PATH; HYDRAULIC NETWORK SIMULATION; HYDRAULIC PATHWAYS; INTEGRATED MODELLING; POSTGIS; SEARCH RESULTS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; UTILITY COMPANIES; WATER QUALITY ISSUES; WATER SUPPLY ZONES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL STORAGE; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; WATER SUPPLY;

WATER QUALITY;

DATA SET; DRINKING WATER; GIS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VOLUME; WATER QUALITY;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84871782861     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2012.07.012     Document Type: Article

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