Conceptual and practical aspects of quantifying uncertainty in environmental modelling and decision support

iEMSs 2012 - Managing Resources of a Limited Planet: Proceedings of the 6th Biennial Meeting of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1013-1020

  Reichert, Peter ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bias; Environmental modelling; Imprecise probabilities; Intersubjective probabilities; Representing knowledge; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894127983     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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