Model calibration and issues related to validation, sensitivity analysis, post-audit, uncertainty evaluation and assessment of prediction data needs

Groundwater: Resource Evaluation, Augmentation, Contamination, Restoration, Modeling and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 237-282

  Tiedeman, Claire R ^a   Hill, Mary C ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

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EID: 84855320813     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5729-8_9     Document Type: Chapter

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