Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8883404 | Advances in Water Resources | 2018 | 43 Pages |
Abstract
A foundational element of RIM is the construction of informative priors for target parameters using ex-situ data, relying on ensembles of well-documented sites, pre-screened for geological and hydrological similarity to the target site. The ensembles are built around two sets of similarity criteria: a physically-based set of criteria and an additional set covering epistemic criteria. In another variation to common Bayesian practice, we update the priors to obtain conditional distributions of the target (environmental impact) dependent variables and not the hydrological variables. This recognizes that goal-oriented site characterization is in many cases more useful in applications compared to parameter-oriented characterization.
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Authors
Li Xiaojun, Li Yandong, Chang Ching-Fu, Tan Benjamin, Chen Ziyang, Sege Jon, Wang Changhong, Yoram Rubin,