Emission factor estimation of ca. 160 emerging organic microcontaminants by inverse modeling in a Mediterranean river basin (Llobregat, NE Spain)

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 520, Issue , 2015, Pages 241-252

  Banjac, Zoran ^a   Ginebreda, Antoni ^a   Kuzmanovic, Maja ^a   Marcé, Rafael ^b   Nadal, Martí ^c   Riera, Josep M ^d   Barceló, Damià ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

^b CATALAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH ICRA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^d Grupo de Investigación en Reingeniería   (Spain)

Author keywords

Emission factors; Inverse modeling; Llobregat river; Organic micropollutants; Sensitivity; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

IMPURITIES; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PESTICIDES; RIVERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRAVEL TIME; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATERSHEDS;

EMISSION FACTORS; INVERSE MODELING; LLOBREGAT RIVER; ORGANIC MICRO-POLLUTANTS; SENSITIVITY;

RIVER POLLUTION;

DRUG; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PERFLUORO COMPOUND; PERFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCE; PESTICIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER POLLUTANT;

EMISSION; INVERSE PROBLEM; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; ORGANIC COMPOUND; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; RIVER POLLUTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; EMISSION FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; HYGIENE PRODUCT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER BASIN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPAIN; UNCERTAINTY; VELOCITY; ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PROCEDURES; RIVER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION;

CATALONIA; LLOBREGAT BASIN; SPAIN;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PESTICIDES; RIVERS; SPAIN; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84925424666     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.03.055     Document Type: Article

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