Uncertainty in estimation of soil hydraulic parameters by inverse modeling: Example lysimeter experiments

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 501-509

  Abbaspour, Karim C ^a   Sonnleitner, Marion A ^a   Schulin, Rainer ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DRAINAGE; HYDRAULICS; LYSIMETERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RANDOM PROCESSES;

BAYESIAN DISTRIBUTION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR (MSE); SEQUENTIAL UNCERTAINTY FITTING (SUFI); SOIL HYDRAULIC PARAMETERS;

SOIL MECHANICS;

HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; INVERSE ANALYSIS; SOIL PROPERTY;

EID: 0032773931     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj1999.03615995006300030012x     Document Type: Article

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