Combined source apportionment and degradation quantification of organic pollutants with CSIA: 1. Model derivation

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 6220-6228

  Lutz, S R ^a   Van Breukelen, B M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER; INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ISOTOPES; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MIXING;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COMPOUND-SPECIFIC STABLE ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; INSTANTANEOUS MIXING; ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION; MODEL DERIVATIONS; RAYLEIGH EQUATION; SOURCE APPORTIONMENT; TRANSFORMATION PROCESS;

NATURAL ATTENUATION;

GROUND WATER; NITRATE; PERCHLORATE; SURFACE WATER; ISOTOPE; POLLUTANT;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTANT SOURCE; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SOIL POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; COMPOUND SPECIFIC STABLE ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; FORENSIC SCIENCE; FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; ORGANIC POLLUTION; POLLUTANT; QUANTIFICATION OF THE EXTENT OF DEGRADATION; RAYLEIGH EQUATION; SOIL; SOURCE APPORTIONMENT; STABLE ISOTOPE SOURCE AND SINK MODEL; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ISOTOPES; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84901919738     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es405400w     Document Type: Article

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