Fuzzy vulnerability mapping of urban groundwater systems to nitrate contamination

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 96, Issue , 2017, Pages 146-157

  Asadi, Parisa ^a   Hosseini, Seiyed Mossa ^b   Ataie Ashtiani, Behzad ^a,c   Simmons, Craig T ^c  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fuzzy set theory; Modified DRASTIC index; Nitrate contamination; Specific vulnerability mapping; Urban aquifer

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; FUZZY SET THEORY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; MAPPING; NITRATES; OPTIMIZATION; WATER POLLUTION;

FUZZY LINEAR REGRESSION; FUZZY OPTIMIZATION MODEL; GROUNDWATER VULNERABILITY; MODIFIED DRASTIC INDEX; NITRATE CONTAMINATION; REAL-CODE GENETIC ALGORITHMS; REGRESSION COEFFICIENT; VULNERABILITY MAPPINGS;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

AQUIFER POLLUTION; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; INDEX METHOD; MAPPING; NITRATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; VULNERABILITY;

IRAN; MASHHAD; RAZAVI KHORASAN;

EID: 85021786959     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2017.06.043     Document Type: Article

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