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PEST Course 2019

Workshop Model Calibration and Uncertainty Analysis Using PEST

Summary

PEST (Parameter ESTimation) is a general-purpose, model-independent, parameter estimation and model predictive uncertainty analysis package. It is the most advanced software available for calibration and predictive uncertainty analysis of groundwater, subsurface reservoir, surface water, land use and other models.

The workshop will provide attendees with the foundations of parameter estimation theory, an understanding of the sources of uncertainty in predictions made by numerical models, and experience in using PEST and PEST ++ to calibrate and analyze the uncertainties of groundwater flow and transport models, and surface water models, and to explore the uncertainties of predictions made by these models.
The program for each day is a combination of lectures and practical sessions. The content of both the theoretical and practical sessions can (to at least to some extent) be defined by attendees according to their interests.

Target audience

Practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds will benefit from this course, whether new to PEST or with previous PEST experience.

To get the most out of the course, attendees should have modelling experience, preferably in the groundwater or surface water disciplines. However the material presented during the course will also benefit those who rely on models for decision-making purposes who need to have a better understanding of what models can and cannot achieve, but who do not necessarily build them.

Hands-on labs are GUI-independent and cover a variety of modelling disciplines, so that anyone interested in model calibration, parameter estimation, or the analysis of numerical model uncertainty can benefit from the course. Experience in working at the command line level is an advantage in doing the workshops. Make sure to bring your laptop so that we can install the software and workshops on it.

Program

 

  • Day 1, morning:
    • welcome
    • models and decision support - what models can and cannot achieve
    • revision of basic linear algebra and statistics
  • Day 1, afternoon:
    • parameter estimation for well-posed inverse problems – theory and practice
    • introduction to PEST suite
    • introcuction to PEST++ suite
    • basic workshop on PEST
  • Day 2, morning:
    • highly parameterized inversion
    • manual, subspace and Tikhonov regularisation
    • the cost of uniqueness
  • Day 2, afternoon:
    • parameter estimation in groundwater modelling
    • pilot points as a parameterization device
    • SVD-assisted inversion
    • workshop on calibrating a highly-parameterized model
  • Day 3, morning:
    • more on groundwater model calibration
    • the need for creativity in formulating an objective function
    • one-sided penalty functions
    • surface water model calibration
  • Day 3, afternoon:
    • highly parameterized inversion in surface water and land-use modelling
    • regionalization of surface water and land use parameters
    • global optimizers available throuth the PEST and PEST++ suites – CMAES, SCE, DE, PSO
    • continuation of workshop on highly parameterized inversion
    • 4 p.m. Darcy lecture
  • Day 4, morning:
    • introduction to uncertainty analysis
    • Monte Carlo methods
    • linear uncertainty analysis
    • assessment of data worth
    • Bayes equation and enforcement of calibration constraints
  • Day 4, afternoon:
    • geostatistical methods
    • enforcing calibration constraints where there are many parameters
    • quasi linear methods
    • Null space Monte Carlo
    • workshop on linear and nonlinear uncertainty analysis
  • Day 5, morning:
    • calibration of defective models, theory and practice
    • direct predictive hypothesis testing
    • decision outcome optimization
    • optimisation under uncertainty
  • Day 5, afternoon:
    • course participants discuss their own examples
    • farewells

 

Fees:

CHF 2000 for professionals and CHF 1000 for students

Places are limited please register quickly

Registration:

Registration formular

Date

September 9 - September 13, 2019

Place

Faculté des Sciences, Unimail

Rue Emile-Argand 11

Room: E326 (3rd floor)

Timetable: 9h00 - 17h00

Speaker

Dr. John Doherty, author of PEST and Darcy lecturer for 2019

Registration

Registration Formular

Fees: CHF 2000 for professionnals, CHF 1000 for students

Free for PhD students of the PhD school "Water Earth Systems"

Informations

Prof. Philip Brunner, CHYN - Center for Hydrogeology and Geothermics

philip.brunner@unine.ch