A modified Sobol' sensitivity analysis method for decision-making in environmental problems

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 75, Issue , 2016, Pages 15-27

  Ganji, Arman ^a,b   Maier, Holger R ^b   Dandy, Graeme C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Global sensitivity analysis; Multi criteria decision analysis; Ranking robustness; Sobol'

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; STABILITY CRITERIA; WATER RESOURCES;

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; GLOBAL SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; RELATIVE RANKINGS; SOBOL;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; MODEL TEST; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; RANKING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; STAKEHOLDER;

EID: 84944351105     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.10.001     Document Type: Article

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