The Current State of Modeling

Ground Water

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 330-333

  Hunt, Randall J ^a   Zheng, Chunmiao ^b,c  

^a WISCONSIN WATER SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUND WATER;

GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER FLOW;

CALIBRATION; GROUNDWATER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84860382242     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2012.00936.x     Document Type: Article

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