Updating the debate on model complexity

GSA Today

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 28-29

  Simmons, Craig T ^a   Hunt, Randall J ^b  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW MODELING; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROGEOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHILOSOPHY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WATERSHED;

EID: 84865225878     PISSN: 10525173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GSATG150GW.1     Document Type: Article

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