Estimation of plume distribution for carbon sequestration using parameter estimation with limited monitoring data

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 4442-4464

  Espinet, Antoine ^a   Shoemaker, Christine ^a   Doughty, Christine ^b  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

geological carbon sequestration; inverse problem; monitoring data; parameter estimation

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; DIGITAL STORAGE; GEOLOGY; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MONITORING; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

AVERAGE CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; EFFICIENT GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; GEOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM; INTEGRATED METHODOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION ESTIMATIONS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTIONS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 84880907335     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20326     Document Type: Article

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