CONTENTS | |||
Abstract | |||
Introduction | |||
The Death Valley Regional Flow System | |||
Methods of Evaluation | |||
Predictions of Interest | |||
Statistics for Evaluating Observation Locations | |||
Prediction standard deviation--Measure of prediction uncertainty | |||
Increased uncertainty statistic | |||
Dimensionless scaled sensitivity | |||
Using the statistics | |||
Grouping of Observations | |||
Results of Evaluation | |||
Omission of Individual Observations | |||
Is an observation important to any of the predictions? | |||
How does observation importance vary with advective transport direction? | |||
What is the breadth of each observation's importance? | |||
How does observation importance vary on a site-specific basis? | |||
Omission of Observation Groups | |||
Is a group important to any of the predictions and how does group importance vary with transport direction? | |||
What is the breadth of each group's importance? | |||
Omission of a Set of 100 Low-Importance Individual Observation Locations | |||
Summary and Conclusions | |||
References Cited | |||