Model Validation Perspectives in Hydrological

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. This timely book offers unique, multifaceted coverage of model validation in hydrological science today. Topics covered include calibration procedures, data assimilation, scaling, critical future need in validation, and evidence of field data. * State-of-the-art research book on an important new topic * End-of-section discussion chapters written by leading international researchers

Malcolm G. Anderson, is founder and Editor-in-Chief of Hydrological Processes, the international research journal published by Wiley. Professor Anderson has longstanding research interests in the fields of numerical hydrology and geotechnical model development for landslide prediction. He has held full year appointments as a Senior Research Hydrologist, for the U.S. Corps Engineers Waterways Experiment Station, USA and the Geotechnical Control Office, Hong Kong.

List of contributors

ix

Hydrological Science: Model Credibility and Scientific Integrity

1

(10)

Malcolm G. Anderson

Paul D. Bates

Kinds of Models

11

(12)

Adam Morton

Mauricio Suarez

Philosophical Issues in Model Assessment

23

(20)

Naomi Oreskes

Kenneth Belitz

Calibration, Validation and Equifinality in Hydrological Modelling: a Continuing Discussion

43

(14)

Keith Beven

Models in the Courtroom

57

(20)

E. Scott Bair

On Simulation, Calibration and Ill-conditioning with Application to Environmental System Modelling

77

(40)

Claude R. Dietrich

Data-Based Mechanistic Modelling and Validation of Rainfall-Flow Processes

117

(46)

Peter Young

The Use of Remote Sensing to Validate Hydrological Models

163

(32)

D. Pearson

M.S. Horritt

R.J. Gurney

D.C. Mason

Soil Water Relations

195

(38)

H.W.G. Booltink

A Hydromechanical Approach to Preferential Flow

233

(28)

P. Germann

Validation of Snow Models

261

(32)

Robert E. Davis

Rachel Jordan

Steven Daly

George Koenig

Groundwater

293

(32)

Hubert J. Morel-Seytoux

Validation of Hydraulic Models

325

(32)

Paul D. Bates

Malcolm G. Anderson

Modelling Water Quality Processes in Riverine Systems

357

(32)

R.A. Falconer

B. Lin

S.M. Kashefipour

Modelling Sediment Entrainment into Suspension, Transport and Deposition in Rivers

389

(24)

Marcelo H. Garcia

The 'Validation' of Hydrodynamic Models: Some Critical Perspectives

413

(26)

Stuart N. Lane

Keith S. Richards

The Validation of Ice-sheet Models

439

(22)

Martin J. Siegert

Antony J. Payne

Discussion of Model Validation in Relation to the Regional and Global Scale

461

(24)

Jens Christian Refsgaard

Author Index

485

(9)

Subject Index

494

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Model Validation Perspectives in Hydrological Science

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