This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 642224
This course will be organised by the FREEWAT partner Laura Foglia within the Modflow and More 2017 Conference next May 2017 at the Colorado School of Mines, Golden, United States.
The aforementioned course provides basic knowledge about MODFLOW, QGIS, building and running model applications using FREEWAT, data integration, and understanding of simulation dynamics using UCODE. By the end of the course, you will know how to:
- Develop MODFLOW models using QGIS and FREEWAT
- Check problem set-up
- Analyse model fit to data
- Identify parameters that can and cannot be estimated given the available data
- Estimate parameter values; and much more, including:
a) identify existing and potential new observations important to predictions and forecasts
b) quantify uncertainty using a range of methods from those that are very fast (10s of models runs) and provide approximate values to computationally intensive methods such as MCMC (10,000s of model runs) that are less approximate
c) engage skeptical stakeholders using alternative models
d) account for alternative models in uncertainty evaluations
Strengths and weaknesses are discussed for all procedures and statistics.
Further information available at the conference website.