Model Validation Perspectives in Hydrological Science

by Anderson, Malcolm G.; Bates, Paul D.

• ISBN13: 9780471985723
• ISBN10: 0471985724
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-11
• Publisher: WILEY

Summary

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

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

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