Characterization and identification of aquifer heterogeneity with generalized parameterization and Bayesian estimation

Water Resources Research

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2004, Pages

  Tsai, Frank T C ^a,b   Yeh, William W G ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Genetic algorithm; Heterogeneity; Inverse problem; Natural neighbor; Parameterization

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GROUNDWATER; INTERPOLATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

AQUIFER HETEROGENEITY; GENERALIZED PARAMETERIZATION METHOD (GP); GROUNDWATER MODELING;

AQUIFERS;

AQUIFER; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GROUNDWATER; HETEROGENEITY; MODELING;

EID: 9644289423     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003WR002893     Document Type: Article

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