Model validation and uncertainty analysis - An example using a nitrate percolation model

ASTM Special Technical Publication

Volumn 1288, Issue , 1996, Pages 187-200

  Mummert, Mark C ^a,b  

^a R E Wright Environmental   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Groundwater modeling; Uncertainty analysis; Validation

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NITRATES; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; SEWAGE SLUDGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT;

MODEL VALIDATION; NITRATE PERCOLATION MODEL; POINT VALIDATION METHOD; STATISTICAL VALIDATION METHOD; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

EID: 0030231271     PISSN: 00660558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1520/stp38386s     Document Type: Article

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