Modelling guidelines - Terminology and guiding principles

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 71-82

  Refsgaard, Jens Christian ^a   Henriksen, Hans Jorgen ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Confirmation; Domain of applicability; Model guidelines; Scientific philosophy; Uncertainty; Validation; Verification

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; RESEARCH; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

CONCEPTUAL MODELS;

NATURAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

GUIDELINE; MODEL VALIDATION; MODELING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0348011425     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2003.08.006     Document Type: Article

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