Spatial and temporal properties of environmental exposure assessments related to ground water contamination

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 4 - Trang 165-178 - 1999
Mohammed B. Lahkim1, Luis A. Garcia2, John R. Nuckols3
1Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA
2Department of Chemical and Bioresource Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA
3Department of Environmental Health, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA

Tóm tắt

This paper describes a new methodology for modeling contaminant transport in ground water for (1) better quantifying the magnitude of exposure in a contaminated aquifer, (2) characterizing the spatial and temporal variation of exposure in a heterogeneous aquifer, and (3) providing more tools for characterizing population exposure. This methodology is also applied to a semi-hypothetical case study.

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