• Calibration and Evaluation of Optimal Model Parameters for Groundwater Flow Simulation in a Small Watershed

  • Su Ryeon Kim1, Jin Chul Joo2*, Hee Sun Moon3*, and Seonggyu Park4

  • 1Department of Environmental Engineering, Hanbat National University
    2Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hanbat National University
    3Groundwater Environment Research Center, Climate Change Response Research Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources
    4Assistant Professor of Hydrologic Modeling, Texas Tech University, United States

  • 소규모 유역에서 지하수 유동 모델링을 위한 최적 모델 매개변수 추론 및 평가

  • 김수련1ㆍ주진철2*ㆍ문희선3*ㆍ박성규4

  • 1국립한밭대학교 환경공학과, 2국립한밭대학교 건설환경공학과, 3한국지질자원연구원 기후변화대응연구본부 지하수환경연구센터, 4Texas Tech University

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This Article

  • 2025; 30(6): 96-108

    Published on Dec 31, 2025

  • 10.7857/JSGE.2025.30.6.096
  • Received on Nov 19, 2025
  • Revised on Dec 5, 2025
  • Accepted on Dec 19, 2025

Correspondence to

  • Jin Chul Joo 2, Hee Sun Moon 3

  • 2Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hanbat National University
    3Groundwater Environment Research Center, Climate Change Response Research Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources

  • E-mail: jincjoo@hanbat.ac.kr, hmoon@kigam.re.kr