Development of a groundwater quality index for seawater intrusion in coastal aquifers

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 57, Issue , 2014, Pages 13-26

  Tomaszkiewicz, M ^a   Abou Najm, M ^a   El Fadel, M ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

GIS spatial analysis; Groundwater quality indices; Seawater intrusion

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; FISH; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; SEA LEVEL; WATER QUALITY;

CURRENT PATTERNS; GEO-SPATIAL ANALYSIS; GLOBAL SEA-LEVEL RISE; GROUND-WATER QUALITIES; GROUNDWATER EXPLOITATION; GROUNDWATER QUALITY INDICES; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

SALT WATER INTRUSION;

AGGREGATION; AQUIFER; COASTAL ZONE; DATA SET; EXPLOITATION; GIS; GROUNDWATER; KARST; MONITORING; SALINE INTRUSION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEAWATER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBANIZATION; VULNERABILITY; WATER QUALITY;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84898796640     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2014.03.010     Document Type: Article

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