Impact of sampling volume on the probability density function of steady state concentration

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Schwede, Ronnie L ^a,b   Cirpka, Olaf A ^a,b   Nowak, Wolfgang ^c   Neuweiler, Insa ^d,e  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c Berkeley   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^e LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROGRAMMING THEORY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRELLIS CODES;

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; BETA DISTRIBUTIONS; CO-KRIGING; CONCENTRATION DISTRIBUTIONS; CONCENTRATION VALUES; CONTAMINANT SOURCES; CROSS SECTIONS; GAUSSIAN; GAUSSIAN PDF; GEOSTATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; HETEROGENEOUS DOMAINS; IN FIELDS; KRIGING; LATERAL MOMENTS; LIMITING VALUES; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; MULTI MODALS; OBSERVATION POINTS; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; SAMPLING VOLUMES; SECOND ORDERS; SEMI-ANALYTICAL; SEMIANALYTICAL APPROACHES; SOLUTE CONCENTRATIONS; STATISTICAL INFERENCES; STATISTICAL THEORIES; STEADY STATE CONCENTRATIONS; STEADY-STATE TRANSPORTS; STOCHASTIC THEORIES; TRANSPORT PROBLEMS; TRAVEL DISTANCES; UNIMODAL; VELOCITY FIELDS;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

AQUIFER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHOD; PLUME; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 59649118658     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006668     Document Type: Article

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