Testing and validating environmental models

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 183, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 33-47

  Kirchner, James W ^a   Hooper, Richard P ^b   Kendall, Carol ^c   Neal, Colin ^d   Leavesley, George ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ecosystem models; model evaluation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ECOSYSTEM MODEL; MODEL EVALUATION;

EID: 0029668367     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0048-9697(95)04971-1     Document Type: Article

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