Modeling transient groundwater flow by coupling ensemble Kalman filtering and upscaling

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Li, Liangping ^a,b   Zhou, Haiyan ^a,b   Hendricks Franssen, Harrie Jan ^c   Gómez Hernndez, J Jaime ^b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER MODEL; ARBITRARY ORIENTATION; CONDUCTIVITY DATA; CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENTS; DISCRETIZATIONS; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTERING; INVERSE MODELING; MONTE CARLO APPROACH; NUMERICAL MODELS; PIE- ZOMETRIC HEAD; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; SCALE OF OBSERVATION; TRANSIENT GROUNDWATER FLOW; UPSCALING;

AQUIFERS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; INVERSE PROBLEMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

KALMAN FILTERS;

FLOW MODELING; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; KALMAN FILTER; MASS TRANSPORT; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PIEZOMETER; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UPSCALING;

EID: 84863012519     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR010214     Document Type: Article

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