Reducing temperature uncertainties by stochastic geothermal reservoir modelling

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 321-333

  Vogt, C ^a   Mottaghy, D ^b   Wolf, A ^a   Rath, V ^a,c   Pechnig, R ^b   Clauser, C ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b GEOPHYSICA BERATUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Heat flow; Hydrothermal systems; Probabilistic forecasting; Probability distributions

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; FORECASTING METHOD; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM; HEAT FLOW; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; MODELING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; RESERVOIR; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 77952560891     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04498.x     Document Type: Article

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