Predicting Pesticide Attenuation in a Fractured Aquifer Using Lumped-Parameter Models

GroundWater

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 276-285

  Farlin, J ^a   Galle T ^a   Bayerle, M ^a   Pittois, D ^a   Braun, C ^a   El Khabbaz, H ^a   Elsner, M ^b   Maloszewski, P ^b  

^a Technoport Schlassgoart 66 ^*  (Luxembourg)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATRAZINE CONCENTRATIONS; EQUIVALENT PARAMETERS; FRACTURED AQUIFER; FRACTURED SANDSTONES; GROUNDWATER RESIDENCE TIME; LUMPED PARAMETER MODELS; MEAN TRANSIT TIME OF WATERS; REGIONAL AQUIFERS;

AQUIFERS; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HERBICIDES; HYDROGEOLOGY; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION; WATER QUALITY;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

ATRAZINE;

AQUIFER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FLOW MODELING; FLOW PATTERN; FRACTURED MEDIUM; LAND USE; PARAMETERIZATION; PESTICIDE APPLICATION; REGIONAL PATTERN; RESIDENCE TIME; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; NATURAL SPRING; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER POLLUTANT;

ATRAZINE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NATURAL SPRINGS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EUROPE;

EID: 84874933709     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2012.00964.x     Document Type: Article

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