Calibration and Reliability in Groundwater Modelling: From Uncertainty to Decision Making - Softcover

 
9781901502589: Calibration and Reliability in Groundwater Modelling: From Uncertainty to Decision Making

Synopsis

Great advances have been made in assessment of uncertainty of groundwater model outputs and how to decrease this uncertainty. However, the last step of the triplet uncertainty assessment, uncertainty reduction, uncertainty management has not yet been properly made. In practice, policy makers still find it hard to cope with model predictions that have been enriched with measures of quantified uncertainty. Several contributions deal with decision making under uncertainty. Considerable progress is reported in the science of determining stochastic well head protection zones and another noticeable advance is the combined modelling and upscaling of spatially heterogeneous hydraulic and geochemical parameters. Further progress in the calibration of groundwater modelling is evident from the use of model reduction techniques in order to calibrate models with millions of grid nodes and the use of remote sensing data.

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