Aquifer structure identification using stochastic inversion

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Harp, Dylan R ^a,b   Dai, Zhenxue ^b   Wolfsberg, Andrew V ^b   Vrugt, Jasper A ^c   Robinson, Bruce A ^b   Vesselinov, Velimir V ^b  

^a University of New Mexico   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR NONLINEAR STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC MODULI; FLUID MECHANICS; GEOPHYSICS; HYDRAULICS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MECHANISMS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION);

AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION; CO KRIGING; EVOLUTIONARY APPROACHES; FACIES DISTRIBUTION; HYDRAULIC PARAMETERS; HYDRAULIC RESPONSES; INVERSE METHOD (IM); NONCONVEX; OBJECTIVE FUNCTION (OF); OPTIMIZATION VARIABLES; PROBABILISTIC ASSESSMENTS; SEARCH CAPABILITIES; STATISTICAL STRUCTURES; STOCHASTIC NATURE; STRUCTURAL PARAMETERS; STRUCTURE IDENTIFICATION; STRUCTURE PARAMETERS; TRANSITION PROBABILITY (TP);

IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

AQUIFER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; INVERSE ANALYSIS; KRIGING; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; STOCHASTICITY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

EID: 48249091715     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL033585     Document Type: Article

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