A comparison of data-driven groundwater vulnerability assessment methods

Groundwater

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 866-879

  Sorichetta, Alessandro ^a   Ballabio, Cristiano ^a   Masetti, Marco ^b   Robinson, Gilpin R ^c   Sterlacchini, Simone ^d  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC CONTAMINANTS; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; GENERALIZED ADDITIVE MODEL; GROUNDWATER VULNERABILITY; GROUNDWATER VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; POPULATION DENSITIES; WEIGHTS OF EVIDENCES;

AQUIFERS; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; NITRATES; POPULATION STATISTICS; SEWAGE;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

CLASSIFICATION; GROUNDWATER; NITRATE; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING BIAS; SEWAGE; SPATIAL VARIATION; VULNERABILITY; WATER DEPTH;

ITALY; LOMBARDY; MILAN; MILANO [LOMBARDY]; PO PLAIN;

GROUND WATER; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; WATER POLLUTANT;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION;

GROUNDWATER; LOGISTIC MODELS; NITRATES; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 84887617471     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gwat.12012     Document Type: Article

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