Influence of numerical precision on the calibration of AEM-based groundwater flow models

Environmental Geology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 57-67

  Rabideau, A J ^a   Matott, L S ^a   Jankovic, I ^a   Craig, J R ^a   Becker, M W ^b  

^a the State University of New York   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytic element modeling; Calibration; Groundwater; New York state; USA

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANALYTIC ELEMENT METHODS; AUTOMATED CALIBRATION TOOLS; GROUNDWATER FLOW MODELS; TRIAL-AND-ERROR CALIBRATION;

GROUNDWATER;

CALIBRATION; FLOW MODELING; GROUNDWATER FLOW;

EID: 21744439943     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-005-1258-6     Document Type: Article

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