Measurement network design including traveltime determinations to minimize model prediction uncertainty

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Janssen, Gijs M C M ^a,b   Valstar, Johan R ^b   Van Der Zee, Sjoerd E A T M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

BREAKTHROUGH VARIANCE; NATURAL LOGARITHM;

GROUNDWATER;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; GROUNDWATER; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

AGE DETERMINATION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DESIGN; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GROUNDWATER; MEASUREMENT METHOD; METHODOLOGY; MODEL; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 41149160661     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR005462     Document Type: Article

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