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Construction, Calibration And Validation of Hydrological Models

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Distributed Hydrological Modelling

Part of the book series: Water Science and Technology Library ((WSTL,volume 22))

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In Chapter 2 of this book a terminology was defined and the different steps in a modelling application was put into the framework of a modelling protocol. In the present chapter some of the elements in such protocol are addressed in more details with special reference to distributed models.

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Refsgaard, J.C., Storm, B. (1990). Construction, Calibration And Validation of Hydrological Models. In: Abbott, M.B., Refsgaard, J.C. (eds) Distributed Hydrological Modelling. Water Science and Technology Library, vol 22. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0257-2_3

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