H44E:
Uncertainty Quantification and Reduction in Hydrogeological Forecasting and Inversion III

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Souheil M Ezzedine, Univ California LLNL, Livermore, CA, United States and Daniel M Tartakovsky, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Souheil M Ezzedine, Univ California LLNL, Livermore, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Niklas Linde, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, Philippe Renard, University of Neuchatel, Neuchatel, Switzerland and Daniel M Tartakovsky, Univ California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Daniel M Tartakovsky, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

4:00 PM
H44E-01
 
Incorporating Pore-Scale Data in Field-Scale Uncertainty Quantification: A Multi-Scale Bayesian Approach
Matteo Icardi, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia; University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Austin, TX, United States
4:15 PM
H44E-02
 
Transient Hydraulic Tomography in the Field: 3-D K Estimation and Validation in a Highly Heterogeneous Unconfined Aquifer
David L Hochstetler1, Warren Barrash1,2 and Peter K Kitanidis1, (1)Stanford, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States
4:30 PM
H44E-03
 
Hierarchical Acceleration of Multilevel Monte Carlo Methods for Computationally Expensive Simulations in Reservoir Modeling
Guannan Zhang1, Dan Lu2 and Clayton Webster2, (1)Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
4:45 PM
H44E-04
 
Inverse Groundwater Flow Modelling Via Conditional Simulation
Sebastian Hörning, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany and Andras Bardossy, University of Stuttgart, Department of Hydrology and Geohydrology, Stuttgart, Germany
5:00 PM
H44E-05
 
CDF solutions of diffusion equation with random inputs
Francesca Boso, University of Calif San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States and Daniel M Tartakovsky, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
5:15 PM
H44E-06
 
A Comparison of Three Stochastic Approaches for Parameter Estimation and Prediction of Steady-State Groundwater Flow: Nonlocal Moment Equations and Monte Carlo Method Coupled with Ensemble Kalman Filter and Geostatistical Stochastic Inversion.
Jessica Vanessa Briseño-Ruiz1, Abel F. Hernández2, Eric Morales-Casique1, Graciela S Herrera3 and Oscar Escolero-Fuentes1, (1)Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Geología Regional, México, D.F., Mexico, (2)Instituto de Investigaciones Eléctricas, Gerencia de Geotermia, Cuernavaca, Mor., Mexico, (3)Instituto de Geofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Recursos Naturales, México, D.F., Mexico
5:30 PM
H44E-07
 
Characterizing Roughness and Connectivity Properties of Aquifer Conductivity Using the Method of Anchored Distributions (MAD)
Falk Hesse1, Jon Edward Sege1, Carlos Murillo2, Sabine Attinger3 and Yoram Rubin4, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States, (3)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, (4)Univ California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
5:45 PM
H44E-08
 
Optimal Observation Network Design for Model Discrimination using Information Theory and Bayesian Model Averaging
Hai V Pham, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States and Frank T-C Tsai, LSU, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
 
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