Coping with ever larger problems, models, and data bases

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1-11

  Beck, M B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Control; Data assimilation; Decision making; Groundwater quality; Integrated models; Modelling; Quality assurance; Sensitivity analysis; Simulation; Surface water quality; Validation; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; GROUNDWATER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SURFACE WATERS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER QUALITY;

DATA ASSIMILATION; WATER ENVIRONMENT MODELS;

WATER POLLUTION CONTROL;

GROUND WATER; SURFACE WATER;

COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA BASE; DECISION MAKING; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 0032999176     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1223(99)00048-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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