Abstract:The transition over 70 years from qualitative rock description to attempted quantitative description of rocks and rock bodies (inverse modelling) and testing of process models with observation data (forward models) are outlined. Dramatic increases of readily measured variables, combined with almost unlimited computing power, yielded a plethora of varied inverse models, but limited attention has been given to critical sampling, variance, closure, 'black swan', and nonlinear issues; recent approaches to closure … Show more
“…These processes are typically described by pde systems solved numerically, which is known as forward modeling. Whitten (2018) reviews the history and challenges of forward modeling in geosciences, and Pham and Tsai (2017) and Singh (2018) review the subject in groundwater modeling.…”
To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.
“…These processes are typically described by pde systems solved numerically, which is known as forward modeling. Whitten (2018) reviews the history and challenges of forward modeling in geosciences, and Pham and Tsai (2017) and Singh (2018) review the subject in groundwater modeling.…”
To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.
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