Four decades of inverse problems in hydrogeology

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 348, Issue , 2000, Pages 1-17

  De Marsily, G ^a   Delhomme, J P ^b   Coudrain Ribstein, A ^a   Lavenue, A M ^c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b SCHLUMBERGER   (France)

^c Waterstone Environmental Engineering & Hydrology Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; ERRORS; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

A-PRIORI ESTIMATES; BAYESIAN APPROACHES; GEOSTATISTICAL METHOD; MASS BALANCE ERRORS; PILOT POINT METHODS; STOCHASTIC FRAMEWORK; TRANSIENT FLOW CONDITIONS; TRANSMISSIVITY FIELD;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; GEOSTATISTICS; HYDROGEOLOGY; KRIGING; PIEZOMETER; STOCHASTICITY; TRANSIENT FLOW;

EID: 79957892200     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2348-5.1     Document Type: Article

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