Uncertainty assessment of a stochastic groundwater flow model using GLUE analysis

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 362, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 89-109

  Hassan, Ahmed E ^a,b   Bekhit, Hesham M ^b   Chapman, Jenny B ^a  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Conditioning; GLUE analysis; Groundwater flow; Monte Carlo; Numerical modeling

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVES; FLOW OF WATER; FORECASTING; GLUES; GLUING; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULICS; HYDROGEOLOGY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MODAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING; UNDERGROUND RESERVOIRS;

A DENSITIES; CASE STUDIES; CONDITIONING; ENSEMBLE AVERAGING; GENERALIZED LIKELIHOOD UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATIONS; GLUE APPLICATIONS; GROUNDWATER FLOW MODELS; INPUT PARAMETERS; MODEL PREDICTIONS; MODELING RESULTS; MONTE CARLO; NUCLEAR; NUMERICAL MODELING; PREDICTIVE UNCERTAINTIES; PRIOR DISTRIBUTIONS; PRIOR INFORMATIONS; SHAPE FACTORS; SMOOTHING; STOCHASTIC; STOCHASTIC GROUNDWATER MODELS; UNCERTAINTY ASSESSMENTS; UNCERTAINTY BOUNDS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CONDITIONING; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOW MODELING; GROUNDWATER FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; STOCHASTICITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ALASKA; ALEUTIAN ISLANDS; AMCHITKA ISLAND; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 55849114052     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2008.08.017     Document Type: Article

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