A controlled experiment in ground water flow model calibration

Ground Water

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 520-535

  Hill, Mary C ^a   Cooley, Richard L ^a   Pollock, David W ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

NONLINEAR REGRESSION METHOD;

GROUNDWATER FLOW;

CALIBRATION; FLUID FLOW; GROUNDWATER; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MODEL;

GROUNDWATER FLOW; MODEL CALIBRATION;

EID: 0032080182     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.1998.tb02824.x     Document Type: Article

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