Estimating seepage intensities from groundwater level time series by inverse modelling: A sensitivity analysis on wet meadow scenarios

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 385, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 132-142

  Cirkel, Dirk Gijsbert ^a,c   Witte, Jan Philip M ^a,b   van der Zee, Sjoerd E A T M ^c  

^a KWR WATERCYCLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ecohydrology; Experimental design; Inverse modelling; Parameter estimation; Seepage intensity; Wet meadows

Indexed keywords

DATA REQUIREMENTS; ECO-HYDROLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; GROUND WATER LEVEL; HIGH FREQUENCY MEASUREMENTS; INPUT DATAS; INVERSE MODELLING; MEASUREMENT INTERVAL; MESOTROPHIC; OPTIMISATIONS; PLANT COMMUNITIES; PLANT MODEL; REAL DATA SETS; RELIABLE ESTIMATES; SCEM-UA; SOIL WATER; SPATIAL SCALE; SPECIES RICHNESS; UPWARD SEEPAGE;

ESTIMATION; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE WATERS; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER LEVELS;

SEEPAGE;

ALGORITHM; DATA SET; ECOHYDROLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; INVERSE ANALYSIS; MEADOW; PIEZOMETER; PLANT COMMUNITY; SEEPAGE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; TIME SERIES; WATER LEVEL;

EID: 77950951296     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.02.009     Document Type: Article

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