Modeling vulnerability of groundwater to pollution under future scenarios of climate change and biofuels-related land use change: A case study in North Dakota, USA

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 447, Issue , 2013, Pages 32-45

  Li, Ruopu ^a   Merchant, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofuels; Climate change; Groundwater vulnerability; Land use change; Nitrate; North Dakota

Indexed keywords

BIOFUELS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS); WATER QUALITY;

CASE-STUDIES; CONDITION; DEPTH-TO-WATER; GROUNDWATER QUALITY; GROUNDWATER VULNERABILITY; LANDUSE CHANGE; NORTH DAKOTA; ON CURRENTS; ON-CURRENTS; VULNERABILITY MODELS;

LAND USE;

BIOFUEL; GROUND WATER; NITRATE;

BIOFUEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; GIS; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROGEOLOGY; LAND USE CHANGE; NITRATE; RECHARGE; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; VULNERABILITY; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP; DISPERSION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; LAND USE; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL FERTILITY; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTION;

NORTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84873266425     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.01.011     Document Type: Article

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