Review of the uncertainty analysis of groundwater numerical simulation

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 58, Issue 25, 2013, Pages 3044-3052

  Wu, JiChun ^a   Zeng, XianKui ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

conceptual model; groundwater modeling; model parameter; observation data; uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883465744     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-013-5950-8     Document Type: Review

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