Value of Information as a Context-Specific Measure of Uncertainty in Groundwater Remediation

Water Resources Management

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1513-1535

  Liu, Xiaoyi ^a,b   Lee, Jonghyun ^a   Kitanidis, Peter K ^a   Parker, Jack ^c   Kim, Ungtae ^c  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c University of Tennessee   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Groundwater remediation; Optimization; Uncertainty quantification; Value of information

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; COST FORMULATION; DECISION MAKERS; DENSE NON-AQUEOUS PHASE LIQUIDS; EXPECTED COSTS; GROUNDWATER REMEDIATION; GROUNDWATER SITES; INCOMPLETE INFORMATION; MEASURE OF UNCERTAINTY; NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUIDS; ON-SITE CONDITIONS; PERFORMANCE PREDICTION; REMEDIATION STRATEGIES; SITE PROPERTIES; UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATIONS; UNIT COST; UPPER LIMITS; VALUE OF INFORMATION;

CALIBRATION; CHARACTERIZATION; COSTS; GROUNDWATER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; POLLUTION;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CALIBRATION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUID; OPTIMIZATION; REMEDIATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84862777212     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-011-9970-3     Document Type: Article

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