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most citedAn iterative local updating ensemble smoother for estimation and uncertainty assessment of hydrologic model parameters with multimodal distributions

131 citations · 342 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

physics.geo-ph2025

Diffusion-Inversion-Net (DIN): An End-to-End Direct Probabilistic Framework for Characterizing Hydraulic Conductivities and Quantifying Uncertainty

Xun Zhang, Weijie Yang, Jiangjiang Zhang +1

We propose the Diffusion-Inversion-Net (DIN) framework for inverse modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport processes. DIN utilizes an offline-trained Denoising Diffusion…

math.OC2020★ 71 cited

Using Deep Learning to Improve Ensemble Smoother: Applications to Subsurface Characterization

Jiangjiang Zhang, Qiang Zheng, Laosheng Wu +1

Ensemble smoother (ES) has been widely used in various research fields to reduce the uncertainty of the system-of-interest. However, the commonly-adopted ES method that employs the…

stat.CO2018★ 46 cited

Surrogate-Based Bayesian Inverse Modeling of the Hydrological System: An Adaptive Approach Considering Surrogate Approximation Error

Jiangjiang Zhang, Qiang Zheng, Dingjiang Chen +2

Bayesian inverse modeling is important for a better understanding of hydrological processes. However, this approach can be computationally demanding, as it usually requires a large…

math.OC2017

Inverse modeling of hydrologic systems with adaptive multi-fidelity Markov chain Monte Carlo simulations

Jiangjiang Zhang, Jun Man, Guang Lin +2

Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation methods are widely used to assess parametric uncertainties of hydrologic models conditioned on measurements of observable state variables…

math.OC2017★ 94 cited

Improving Simulation Efficiency of MCMC for Inverse Modeling of Hydrologic Systems with a Kalman-Inspired Proposal Distribution

Jiangjiang Zhang, Jasper A. Vrugt, Xiaoqing Shi +3

Bayesian analysis is widely used in science and engineering for real-time forecasting, decision making, and to help unravel the processes that explain the observed data. These data…

math.OC2016★ 131 cited

An iterative local updating ensemble smoother for estimation and uncertainty assessment of hydrologic model parameters with multimodal distributions

Jiangjiang Zhang, Guang Lin, Weixuan Li +2

Ensemble smoother (ES) has been widely used in inverse modeling of hydrologic systems. However, for problems where the distribution of model parameters is multimodal, using ES dire…

math.OC2015

Inverse iterative simulation: An efficient approach for contaminant source identification

Jiangjiang Zhang

In groundwater contaminant remediation and risk assessment, it is important to identify parameters of the contaminant source and hydraulic conductivity field by solving an inverse…

math.OC2014

An Inverse Gaussian Process Monte Carlo algorithm for estimation and uncertainty assessment of hydrologic model parameters

Jiangjiang Zhang, Weixuan Li

Solving hydrologic inverse problems usually requires repetitive forward simulations. One approach to mitigate the computational cost is to build a surrogate model, i.e., an approxi…