Model Validation: Perspectives in Hydrological Science

Model Validation is a fundamental issue in modern hydrological science where increased demands for prediction and process understanding has been driven by advances in numerical modelling and environmental legislation. Model Validation: Perspectives in Hydrological Science is the first book to deal with this subject in hydrology and environmental science, as well as in other fields.
Model Validation brings together philosophers, modellers and legal experts to comment on model validation issues and gives an evaluation of how we interpret scientific evidence drived from numerical models. It shows how much issues underpin research across the discipline of hydrological science, and also in legal and philosophical frameworks, by addressing major questions concerning acceptable levels of proof in the area. This book will contribute to research within the discipline, in addition to interdisciplinary studies in environmental science and to the wider debate over the nature of scientific prediction.
This is essential reading for academic researchers, policy makers, and legal experts across the spectrum of environmental science, and of great use for 3rd year undergraduate and postgraduate courses.

Spis treści:
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.

Okładka tylna:
Model Validation is a fundamental issue in modern hydrological science where increased demands for prediction and process understanding has been driven by advances in numerical modelling and environmental legislation. Model Validation: Perspectives in Hydrological Science is the first book to deal with this subject in hydrology and environmental science, as well as in other fields.
Model Validation brings together philosophers, modellers and legal experts to comment on model validation issues and gives an evaluation of how we interpret scientific evidence drived from numerical models. It shows how much issues underpin research across the discipline of hydrological science, and also in legal and philosophical frameworks, by addressing major questions concerning acceptable levels of proof in the area. This book will contribute to research within the discipline, in addition to interdisciplinary studies in environmental science and to the wider debate over the nature of scientific prediction.
This is essential reading for academic researchers, policy makers, and legal experts across the spectrum of environmental science, and of great use for 3rd year undergraduate and postgraduate courses.