Development of hierarchical fuzzy model for groundwater vulnerability to pollution assessment

Arabian Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2713-2728

  Iqbal, Jawed ^a   Pathak, Gopal ^a   Gorai, A K ^a  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Groundwater vulnerability assessment; Hierarchical fuzzy model; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939895626     PISSN: 18667511     EISSN: 18667538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12517-014-1417-8     Document Type: Article

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