Addressing equifinality and uncertainty in eutrophication models

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Arhonditsis, George B ^a   Perhar, Gurbir ^a   Zhang, Weitao ^a   Massos, Evangelia ^a   Shi, Molu ^a   Das, Argho ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ADDRESSING EQUIFINALITY; EUTROPHICATION MODELS; PARAMETER CORRELATION STRUCTURE;

EUTROPHICATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EUTROPHICATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; EUTROPHICATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MESOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 39749087471     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR005862     Document Type: Article

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