Practical postcalibration uncertainty analysis: Yucca Mountain, Nevada

Ground Water

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 851-869

  James, Scott C ^a   Doherty, John E ^b   Eddebbarh, Al Aziz ^c  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b Watermark Numerical Computing   (Australia)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER FLOW MODEL; HIGH LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; HISTORICAL MEASUREMENTS; INFORMATION CONTENTS; LICENSE APPLICATIONS; LINEAR ANALYSIS; MODEL CALIBRATION; MODEL PREDICTION; NONLINEAR UNCERTAINTIES; PREDICTIVE ACCURACY; PREDICTIVE PRECISION; PREDICTIVE UNCERTAINTY; SYSTEM BEHAVIORS; SYSTEM PROPERTY; UNCERTAINTY BOUNDS; YUCCA MOUNTAIN , NEVADA; YUCCA MOUNTAIN PROJECT;

CALIBRATION; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FORECASTING; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROGEOLOGY; INDUSTRIAL WASTE TREATMENT; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; WASTE DISPOSAL;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

GROUND WATER;

CALIBRATION; DATABASE; DISCHARGE; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLOW MODELING; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; NONLINEARITY; PARAMETERIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WASTE DISPOSAL;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; GEOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY; UNITED STATES; WASTE DISPOSAL; WATER POLLUTANT;

CALIBRATION; GEOLOGY; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGY; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEVADA; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; REFUSE DISPOSAL; UNCERTAINTY; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; YUCCA MOUNTAIN;

EID: 70350144803     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2009.00626.x     Document Type: Article

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