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@ARTICLE{Erdal:111955,
author = {Erdal, D. and Neuweiler, I. and Huisman, J.A.},
title = {{E}stimating effective model parameters for heterogeneous
unsaturated flow using error models for bias correction},
journal = {Water resources research},
volume = {48},
issn = {0043-1397},
address = {Washington, DC},
publisher = {AGU},
reportid = {PreJuSER-111955},
pages = {W06530},
year = {2012},
note = {Record converted from VDB: 16.11.2012},
abstract = {Estimates of effective parameters for unsaturated flow
models are typically based on observations taken on length
scales smaller than the modeling scale. This complicates
parameter estimation for heterogeneous soil structures. In
this paper we attempt to account for soil structure not
present in the flow model by using so-called external error
models, which correct for bias in the likelihood function of
a parameter estimation algorithm. The performance of
external error models are investigated using data from three
virtual reality experiments and one real world experiment.
All experiments are multistep outflow and inflow experiments
in columns packed with two sand types with different
structures. First, effective parameters for equivalent
homogeneous models for the different columns were estimated
using soil moisture measurements taken at a few locations.
This resulted in parameters that had a low predictive power
for the averaged states of the soil moisture if the
measurements did not adequately capture a representative
elementary volume of the heterogeneous soil column. Second,
parameter estimation was performed using error models that
attempted to correct for bias introduced by soil structure
not taken into account in the first estimation. Three
different error models that required different amounts of
prior knowledge about the heterogeneous structure were
considered. The results showed that the introduction of an
error model can help to obtain effective parameters with
more predictive power with respect to the average soil water
content in the system. This was especially true when the
dynamic behavior of the flow process was analyzed.},
keywords = {J (WoSType)},
cin = {IBG-3},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-3-20101118},
pnm = {Terrestrische Umwelt},
pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK407},
shelfmark = {Environmental Sciences / Limnology / Water Resources},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000306000600001},
doi = {10.1029/2011WR011062},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/111955},
}