EP53F:
Verification, Validation, Uncertainty Quantification, and Scaling Challenges in Geophysical and Surface Process Models II

Session ID#: 3103

Friday, 19 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
301 (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Kaveh Zamani, California Department of Water Resources, Levee Maintaining Agency Assessment Unit, Division of Flood Management, Sacramento, United States, Jordan Marie Adams, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, United States and Daniel E. J. Hobley, Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Convener:  Fabian A Bombardelli, Univ. of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Daniel E. J. Hobley, Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • H - Hydrology
  • NG - Nonlinear Geophysics
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Computational Methods across Scales: Personal to High Performance Platforms

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Concepts and Practice of Verification, Validation, and Uncertainty Quantification (6676)
William L. Oberkampf, WL Oberkampf Consulting, Austin, TX, United States
Testing Predictive Skill of Groundwater Flow and Transport Simulations (Invited) (3681)
Mary C Hill, Ming Ye, Florida State University, Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, United States, Laura Foglia, Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany and Dan Lu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Inverse Modeling Via Linearized Functional Minimization (Invited) (3884)
David A Barajas-Solano, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, Brendt Wohlberg, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Dr. Velimir monty V Vesselinov, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States and Daniel M Tartakovsky, Stanford University, Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States
Topographic Stress, Bedrock Fractures, and Landscape Evolution (Invited) (23408)
J Taylor Perron1, Seulgi Moon2, James St. Clair3, Stephen J Martel4, W Steven Holbrook5, Kamini Singha6 and Jorden L Hayes3, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, & Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)University of Wyoming, Laramie, United States, (4)Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States, (5)University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States, (6)Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Golden, CO, United States
Do Meandering Rivers Reach a Stable Long-Term Geometry if Channel Width can Vary? (27430)
Esther Chinwe Eke, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States
Linking Rainstorm-Driven Sediment Dynamics to the Decadal Evolution of Grain Sizes in Dryland Basins (Invited) (5030)
Katerina Michaelides, University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom, Michael Bliss Singer, Cardiff University, Water Research Institute, Cardiff, United Kingdom; University of California Santa Barbara, Earth Research Institute, Santa Barbara, United States and Simon M Mudd, University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Efficient numerical solution of the basic equations governing landscape evolution (Invited) (2895)
Jean Braun, Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France