1. Edition - April 2001
252.- Euro
2001. XII, 500 Pages, Hardcover
- Handbook/Reference Book -
ISBN-10: 0-471-98572-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-471-98572-3 - John Wiley & Sons








Short description
Validation is a central issue to future model design in environmental science. This book is the first to provide a critical appraisal of today's validation needs, capabilities, and required changes in philosophy. It takes examples from four different scales: hillslope and river channel, catchment, regional, and global.

From the contents
List of Contributors.

Hydrological Science: Model Credibility and Scientific Integrity (M. Anderson & P. Bates).
Kind of Models (A. Morton & M. Suárez).

Philosophical Issues in Model Assessment (N. Oreskes & K. Belitz).

Calibration, Validation and Equifinality in Hydrological Modelling: A Continuing Discussion ... (K. Beven).

Models in the Courtroom (E. Bair).

On Simulation, Calibration and Ill-conditioning with Application to Environmental System Modelling (C. Dietrich).

Data-Based Mechanistic Modelling and Validation of Rainfall--Flow Processes (P. Young).

The Use of Remote Sensing to Validate Hydrological Models (D. Pearson, et al.).

Soil Water Relations (H. Booltink).

A Hydromechanical Approach to Preferential Flow (P. Germann).

Validation of Snow Models (R. Davis, et al.).

Groundwater (H. Morel-Seytoux).

Validation of Hydraulic Models (P. Bates & M. Anderson).

Modelling Water Quality Processes in Riverine Systems (R. Falconer, et al.).

Modelling Sediment Entrainment into Suspension, Transport and Deposition in Rivers (M. Garcia).

The 'Validation' of Hydrodynamic Models: Some Critical Perspectives (S. Lane & K. Richards).

The Validation of Ice-sheet Models (M. Siegert & A. Payne).

Discussion of Model Validation in Relation to the Regional and Global Scale (J. Refsgaard).

Author Index.

Subject Index.