Jupyter Notebooks for Parameter Estimation, Uncertainty Analysis, and Optimization with PEST++
Published in Groundwater, 2024
To aid new users in learning the functionality of the PEST++ suite of software, a collection of interactive tutorials was created by the developers from the Groundwater Modeling Decision Support Initiative (GMDSI) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). These tutorials are available to the public via GitHub and come in the form of Python scripts embedded in the Jupyter Notebooks interface. The objectives of this technical review are to briefly describe the current and previous incarnations of PEST and PEST++, provide instructions for accessing and using the GMDSI tutorials, and provide insight into the effectiveness of the tutorials at introducing new users to PEST/PEST++ concepts and implementation.
Recommended citation: Ford, C., Ha, W., Markovich, K. and Zwinger, J. (2024), Jupyter Notebooks for Parameter Estimation, Uncertainty Analysis, and Optimization with PEST++. Groundwater, 62: 825-829. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwat.13447
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