A framework for dealing with uncertainty due to model structure error

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1586-1597

  Refsgaard, Jens Christian ^a   van der Sluijs, Jeroen P ^b   Brown, James ^c   van der Keur, Peter ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conceptual uncertainty; Environmental modelling; Model error; Model structure; Pedigree; Scenario analysis

Indexed keywords

EXTRAPOLATION; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODEL STRUCTURES;

CONCEPTUAL UNCERTAINTY; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING; MODEL ERROR; SCENERIO ANALYSIS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; EXTRAPOLATION; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODEL STRUCTURES;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 33748416660     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2005.11.013     Document Type: Article

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