Modeling and visualizing uncertainty in a global water balance model

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 972-978

  Miller, James R ^a   Clibum, Daniel C ^b   Feddema, Johannes J ^a   Slocum, Terry A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b HANOVER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Decision support; Uncertainty; Visualization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; PUBLIC POLICY;

WATER BALANCE MODEL;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0037660902     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/952710.952722     Document Type: Conference Paper

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