Impact of input data uncertainty on environmental exposure assessment models: A case study for electromagnetic field modelling from mobile phone base stations

Environmental Research

Volumn 135, Issue , 2014, Pages 148-155

  Beekhuizen, Johan ^a   Heuvelink, Gerard B M ^b   Huss, Anke ^a   Bürgi, Alfred ^c   Kromhout, Hans ^a   Vermeulen, Roel ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c ARIAS umweltforschungberatung   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic fields; Exposure assessment; Mobile phone base stations; Monte Carlo simulation; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

DATA QUALITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEIGHT; MOBILE COMMUNICATION; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RANKING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BUILDING; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; MOBILE PHONE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PREDICTION; RELIABILITY; UNCERTAINTY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; NETHERLANDS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AMSTERDAM [NORTH HOLLAND]; NETHERLANDS; NORTH HOLLAND;

CELL PHONES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84907818810     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2014.05.038     Document Type: Article

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