Persistent questions of heterogeneity, uncertainty, and scale in subsurface flow and transport

Water Resources Research

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 5888-5904

  Kitanidis, Peter K ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

heterogeneity; information; scale; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; REACTION RATES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER RESOURCES;

EFFECTIVE CONDUCTIVITY; EFFECTIVE DISPERSION; HETEROGENEITY; INFORMATION; SCALE; SUBSURFACE HYDROLOGY; UNCERTAINTY; UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATIONS;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

DATA PROCESSING; HETEROGENEITY; HOMOGENEITY; INTERPOLATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESEARCH METHOD; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOLUTE; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STOCHASTICITY; SUBSURFACE FLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UPSCALING; WATER RESOURCE;

EID: 84941993891     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015WR017639     Document Type: Article

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