Advances in Geostatistical and Stochastic Modeling for Groundwater Resources Assessment and Management

Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to contribute to this upcoming Special Issue entitled “Advances in Geostatistical and Stochastic Modeling for Groundwater Resources Assessment and Management”. Groundwater resources play a critical role in water supply and ecosystem sustainability across various regions, and their importance is further amplified in the face of climate change, which brings heightened variability in precipitation patterns and intensifies anthropogenic pressures. These challenges demand robust and innovative approaches to groundwater assessment and modeling.

This Special Issue will showcase recent advances in geostatistical and stochastic methodologies, approaches, and formulations that enhance the accuracy and reliability of groundwater resource evaluation. We welcome contributions exploring novel frameworks that integrate multiple data sources, including geological, hydrogeological, petrographic, and stratigraphic information, to address the inherent uncertainty in subsurface characterization better. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Probabilistic and Monte Carlo-based approaches for groundwater flow and transport modeling;
• Geostatistical methods for characterizing aquifer heterogeneity and connectivity;
• Stochastic uncertainty quantification in groundwater modeling;
• Geostatistical and stochastic approaches for groundwater contamination risk assessment;
• Surrogate modeling and reduced-order representations for computational efficiency;
• Stochastic approaches for assessing climate change impacts on groundwater systems.

We look forward to receiving contributions that further our understanding of these innovative techniques and their role in the sustainable management of groundwater resources.

Dr. Massimiliano Schiavo
Dr. Valeria Todaro
Dr. Vanessa A. Godoy
Dr. Emmanouil Varouchakis
Dr. Marco D’Oria
Guest Editors

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