Using a Cloud to Replenish Parched Groundwater Modeling Efforts

Ground Water

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 360-365

  Hunt, Randall J ^a   Luchette, Joseph ^a   Schreuder, Willem A ^b   Rumbaugh, James O ^c   Doherty, John ^d,e   Tonkin, Matthew J ^f   Rumbaugh, Douglas B ^c  

^a McLane Environmental LLC   (United States)

^b Principia Mathematica   (United States)

^c Environmental Simulations Inc   (United States)

^d Watermark Numerical Computing   (Australia)

^e FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f SS Papadopulos and Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; COMPUTATIONAL REQUIREMENTS; COMPUTING POWER; FLEXIBLE COMPUTING; GROUNDWATER MODELING; GROUNDWATER MODELS; MODEL CALIBRATION; SIMULTANEOUS USE;

GROUNDWATER;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CALIBRATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FUTURE PROSPECT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INTERNET; MODEL VALIDATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER FLOW;

MODELS, THEORETICAL; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 77952845343     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2010.00699.x     Document Type: Article

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