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Hydrological data are often highly inaccurate. Interval methods help to estimate inaccuracy caused by data uncertainty, both for forward problems (in which we predict how water will flow in the known medium), and for the inverse problems (in which we observe how water flows and determine the properties of the medium).
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Birdie, T.R., Surana, K.S. The Use of Interval Analysis in Hydrologic Systems. Reliable Computing 4, 269–281 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009955613320
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