Inverse models: A necessary next step in ground-water modeling

Ground Water

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 250-260

  Poeter, Eileen P ^a   Hill, Mary C ^b  

^a NSF Engineering Research Center for Reinventing the Nation s Urban Water Infrastructure   (United States)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

DATA SHORTCOMINGS; INVERSE MODELING; NONAUTOMATED CALIBRATION;

GROUNDWATER FLOW;

EID: 0031105936     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.1997.tb00082.x     Document Type: Article

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