An integrated methodology for recording uncertainties about environmental data

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 153-160

  Brown, J D ^a   Heuvelink, Gerard B ^b   Refsgaard, J C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Environmental data; Possibility; Probability; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ENVIRONMENTAL DATA; INTEGRATED METHODOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 28244441673     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2005.0163     Document Type: Article

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