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Published online 23 August 2007
Published in Vadose Zone J 6:668-678 (2007)
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2006.0148
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Quantifying the Influence of Uncertainty and Variability on Groundwater Risk Assessment for Trace Elements

Sven Altfeldera,*, Wilhelmus H. M. Duijnisvelda, Thilo Streckb, Gunnar Meyenburga and Jens Utermanna

a Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Stilleweg 2, D-30655 Hannover, Germany
b Dep. of Soil Science and Land Evaluation, Univ. of Hohenheim, D-70593 Stuttgart, Germany


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FIG. 1. Generated cumulative density functions (CDF) of pH and Corg with uncertainties in a single soil layer of a set of random columns.

 

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FIG. 2. Cumulative density function (CDF) of Freundlich coefficient K (log scale, left panel; carteisian, right panel) in one soil layer of the random soil columns with uncertainty (same layer as in Fig. 1).

 

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FIG. 3. Aggregation scheme for quantifying the distribution of field-averaged concentration depth profiles from local profiles.

 

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FIG. 4. Boundary conditions for the wastewater irrigation site near Braunschweig, Germany.

 

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FIG. 5. The sorbed and dissolved Cd-concentration profiles measured at the site in Braunschweig, Germany, sorbed and dissolved concentrations predicted with the local extended Freundlich equation (Streck and Richter, 1997b) as well as the depth distribution (including the 95% confidence interval) predicted with the extended Cd–Freundlich equation derived by Utermann et al. (2005).

 

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FIG. 6. Boundary conditions for the site near the metal smelter facility in Nordenham, Germany.

 

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FIG. 7. The sorbed Cd-concentration profile measured at Nordenham, Germany, sorbed concentrations predicted with the local extended Freundlich equation (Beyer, 2002) as well as the depth distribution (including the 95% confidence interval) predicted with the extended Cd–Freundlich equation derived by Utermann et al. (2005).

 

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FIG. A1. Measured and predicted Cd concentrations in the sorbed phase for the 133 nationwide monitoring sites in Germany investigated by Utermann et al. (2005). Sorbed concentration (S) predicted was obtained by multiple linear regression between the dependant variable S measured and the independent variables pH, Corg, and clay using Eq. [A1] (Utermann et al., 2005).

 

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FIG. A2. Box plot of the on-site errors in the predicted sorbed concentration S (extended Cd–Freundlich equation based on Corg, pH, and clay).

 

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FIG. A3. Diagnostic ANOVA plots to characterize the distribution of the on-site residuals.

 

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FIG. A4. Histogram and quantile–quantile plot of the site-specific residual ANOVA-means.

 

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FIG. A5. Cumulative density functions (CDF) of the residual error {varepsilon}1 + {varepsilon}2 of the extended Freundlich equation for one soil layer of the random soil columns with uncertainty (same layer as in Fig. 1).

 





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