Spatiotemporal changes of CVOC concentrations in karst aquifers: Analysis of three decades of data from Puerto Rico

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 511, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-10

  Yu, Xue ^a   Ghasemizadeh, Reza ^a   Padilla, Ingrid ^b   Irizarry, Celys ^b   Kaeli, David ^a   Alshawabkeh, Akram ^a  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

CVOC; Groundwater contamination; Karst; Puerto Rico (USA); Spatiotemporal patterns

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; DICHLOROMETHANE; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

CVOC; GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION; KARST; PUERTO RICO; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS;

CONTAMINATION;

CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CHLORINATED VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; CHLOROFORM; DICHLOROMETHANE; GROUND WATER; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; WATER POLLUTANT;

AQUIFER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; KARST; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); KARST AQUIFER; LANDFILL; PRECIPITATION; PUERTO RICO; TEMPERATURE; WATER CONTAMINATION; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION;

PUERTO RICO; UNITED STATES;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROUNDWATER; PUERTO RICO; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84919710148     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.12.031     Document Type: Article

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