Quality assurance in model based water management - Review of existing practice and outline of new approaches

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1201-1215

  Refsgaard, Jens Christian ^a   Henriksen, Hans Jørgen ^a   Harrar, William G ^a   Scholten, Huub ^b   Kassahun, Ayalew ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Modelling guidelines; Quality assurance; Support tools; Uncertainty; Water resources management

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; DATA REDUCTION; JOB ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OUTSOURCING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; WATER CONSERVATION;

MODELLER-MANAGER DIALOGUE; PUBLIC INTERACTIVE GUIDELINES; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER MANAGERS;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

MODELING; QUALITY CONTROL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 16244368843     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2004.07.006     Document Type: Article

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