Evaluation of prediction intervals for expressing uncertainties in groundwater flow model predictions

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 2627-2639

  Christensen, Steen ^a   Cooley, Richard L ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; STREAM FLOW; FORECASTING; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROGEOLOGY;

CROSS-VALIDATION METHOD; COVERAGE PROBABILITIES; CROSS-VALIDATION METHODS; DEPENDENT VARIABLES; FIELD MEASUREMENT; GROUNDWATER FLOW MODEL; GROUNDWATER MODELS; INDIVIDUAL PREDICTION; PREDICTION INTERVAL;

GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

FLOW MEASUREMENT; GROUNDWATER;

FLOW MEASUREMENT; GROUNDWATER; MODELING;

EID: 0032882781     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999WR900163     Document Type: Article

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