Evaluating observations in the context of predictions for the death valley regional groundwater system

Joint Conference on Water Resource Engineering and Water Resources Planning and Management 2000: Building Partnerships

Volumn 104, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Ely, D Matthew ^a   Hill, Mary C ^a   Tiedeman, Claire R ^b   O'Brien, Grady M ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ground water management; Head, fluid mechanics; Hydraulic properties; Models; Predictions; Subsurface flow; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAM; DEATH VALLEY; GROUND-WATER MANAGEMENT; HYDRAULIC HEADS; HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; INFERENTIAL STATISTICS; MODEL PREDICTION; MODFLOW; NON-LINEAR REGRESSION; PREDICTION UNCERTAINTY; REGIONAL GROUNDWATER; SCALE MODELS; SUBSURFACE FLOW; SUBSURFACE TRANSPORT; SYSTEM DYNAMICS; U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; WEALTH OF INFORMATION;

CONTACTS (FLUID MECHANICS); FORECASTING; GROUNDWATER; HYDRAULICS; HYDROGEOLOGY; MECHANICS; PLANNING; ROADS AND STREETS; SURVEYS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCES EXPLORATION;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 74949127090     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/40517(2000)390     Document Type: Conference Paper

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