Predictive uncertainty analysis of a saltwater intrusion model using null-space Monte Carlo

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Herckenrath, Daan ^a   Langevin, Christian D ^b   Doherty, John ^c,d  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c Watermark Numerical Computing   (Australia)

^d FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL BURDEN; CONDUCTIVITY DISTRIBUTIONS; FLOW AND TRANSPORT; GROUND WATER DISCHARGE; HETEROGENEOUS AQUIFERS; LINEAR ANALYSIS; LINEAR METHODS; MODEL CALIBRATION; MONTE CARLO; PREDICTION UNCERTAINTY; PREDICTIVE UNCERTAINTY; RANDOM NOISE; RANDOM PARAMETERS; REALISTIC FIELD CONDITIONS; SOLUTION SPACE; VARIOGRAMS;

AQUIFERS; CALIBRATION; FORECASTING; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; REACTOR CORES; SALT WATER INTRUSION;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AQUIFER; CALIBRATION; FLOW MODELING; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HETEROGENEITY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SALINE INTRUSION; SALINITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VARIOGRAM;

EID: 79955977352     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009342     Document Type: Article

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