Model validation

Model Validation brings together philosophers, modellers and legal experts ta comment on model validation issues and gives an evaluation of how we interpret scientific evidence derived from numerical models. It shows how such 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.

Contents

• Chapter 1 Hydrological Science : Model Credibility and Scientific Integrity
• Chapter 2 Kinds of Models
• Chapter 3 Philosophical Issues in Model Assessment
• Chapter 4 Calibration Validation and Equifinality in Hydrological Modelling a Continuing Discussion
• Chapter 5 Models in the Courtroom
• Chapter 6 On Simulation Calibration and Ill-conditioning with Application to Environmental System Modelling
• Chapter 7 Data-Based Mechanistic Modelling AND Validation of Rainfall-Flow Process
• Chapter 8 The Use of Remote to Validate Hydrological Models
• Chapter 9 Soil Water Relations
• Chapter 10 A Hydromechanical Approach to Preferential Flow
• Chapter 11 Validation of Snow Models
• Chapter 12 Groundwater
• Chapter 13 Validation of Hydraulic Models
• Chapter 14 Modelling Water Quality Processes in Riverine Systems
• Chapter 15 Modelling Sediment Entrainment into Suspension, Transport and Deposition in Rivers
• Chapter 16 The "Validation " of Hydrodynamic Models : Some Critical Perspectives
• Chapter 17 The Validation of Ice-sheet Models
• Chapter 18 Discussion of Model Validation in Relation to the Regional and Global Scale