Uncertainty reduction and characterization for complex environmental fate and transport models: An empirical Bayesian framework incorporating the stochastic response surface method

Water Resources Research

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2003, Pages

  Balakrishnan, Suhrid ^a,b   Roy, Amit ^a   Ierapetritou, Marianthi G ^b   Flach, Gregory P ^c   Georgopoulos, Panos G ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The State University of New Jersey   (United States)

^c SAVANNAH RIVER NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Input distributions; Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC); Metropolis Hastings; SRSM; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HYDRAULICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STREAM FLOW; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

UNCERTAINTY REDUCTION;

GROUNDWATER FLOW;

FLOW ANALYSIS; GROUNDWATER; STOCHASTIC METHOD;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; GROUNDWATER FLOW; STOCHASTICITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 1242277349     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002WR001810     Document Type: Article

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