Stochastic and Statistical Methods in Hydrology and Environmental Engineering: Volume 2 Stochastic and Statistical Modelling with Groundwater and Surface Water Applications

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Unny Symposium: Why are You Here?....Pages 3-20
Stochastic Differential Equations in Environmental Modeling and their Numerical Solution....Pages 21-31
The Meaning of Stochasticity, Randomness and Uncertainty in Environmental Modeling....Pages 33-38
Front Matter....Pages 39-39
Identification of Stochastic Dispersion Models....Pages 41-54
Solving and Calibrating Groundwater Flow Systems with the Penalty Method....Pages 55-67
Calibration of Groundwater Models by Optimization of Parameters in Homogeneous Geological Zones....Pages 69-82
Stochastic Characterization of Aquifer Heterogeneity from Drill Log Data....Pages 83-98
Groundwater Contaminant Transport: Estimating the Pollution at a Well....Pages 99-112
Transport by Two-Dimensional Random Velocity Fields : Effective Dispersion Coefficients of a Finite Plume....Pages 113-126
Spatial Correlation Analysis of Two-Dimensional Solute Transport in the Unsaturated Zone....Pages 127-138
Geostatistical Consideration on the Water Retention Volume and Pore Volume in Unsaturated Granular Material Composed of Various Particles....Pages 139-149
Derivation of a Distribution for the Piezometric Head in Groundwater Flow Using Entropy....Pages 151-161
L 1 and L 2 Estimators in Groundwater Problems: Parameter Estimates and Covariances....Pages 163-173
A Version of Dynamic-Stochastic Modelling of Hydrological Processes....Pages 175-183
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Computational Methods in Stochastic River Waters Quality Modeling....Pages 187-195
A Random Flight Model in General Coordinates....Pages 197-209
Application of a Distributed Parameter Filter to Predict Simulated Tidal Induced Shallow Water Flow....Pages 211-223
Stochastic Behaviour of Storage in Conceptual Reservoirs....Pages 225-240
Stochastic Response of Storage Function Model for Flood Runoff....Pages 241-254
Stochastic Model of Finite Storage Processes: Input with Finite Support....Pages 255-268
Front Matter....Pages 269-269
A Regularized Algorithm for Solving Two-Stage Stochastic Linear Programming Problems: A Water Resources Example....Pages 271-284
Stochastic Characterization of Optimal Response of a Hydroelectric System Via Dynamic Programming....Pages 285-298
Front Matter....Pages 299-299
Estimating Mean and Covariance of the Solution of a Linear System with Random Coefficients....Pages 301-307
Second Moment Analysis of Dynamic Systems with Probabilistic Components in the Frequency Domain....Pages 309-322
Front Matter....Pages 323-323
Uncertainty Analysis in Global Carbon Dioxide Modeling....Pages 325-337
A Real-Time Estimation of the Accuracy of Short-Term Rainfall Prediction Using Radar....Pages 339-351
Fourier Approximations for Estimation And Smoothing of Irregularly Observed Spatial Processes....Pages 353-365
Back Matter....Pages 367-372