To be or not to be multi-Gaussian? A reflection on stochastic hydrogeology

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 47-61

  Gómez Hernández, J Jaime ^a   Wen, Xian Huan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Geostatistics; Heterogeneity; Mass transport; Monte Carlo simulation; Non multi Gaussian; Risk analysis; Stochastic simulation; Travel time; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; FUNCTIONS; GEOLOGY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

GEOSTATISTICS; MULTIVARIATE GAUSSIAN RANDOM FUNCTION MODEL; TRAVEL TIME;

HYDROLOGY;

HYDROGEOLOGY; MODEL; STOCHASTIC METHOD;

FLUID FLOW; GAUSSIAN MODEL; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROGEOLOGY; STOCHASTIC HYDROGEOLOGY; STOCHASTIC METHODS; TRAVEL TIME;

SWEDEN, FINNSJON;

EID: 0032007819     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0309-1708(96)00031-0     Document Type: Article

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