Efficient and responsible use of prior information in inverse methods

Ground Water

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 151-163

  Weiss, Richard ^a   Smith, Leslie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ERRORS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EIGENSPACE ANALYSIS; GROUNDWATER RECHARGE RATE; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY;

GROUNDWATER RECHARGE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INVERSE METHOD; PRIOR INFORMATION;

EID: 0031950715     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.1998.tb01076.x     Document Type: Article

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