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Generally a model of a complex real system of processes is every description or representation of them. Compared to the real system, represented, e.g., by a laboratory experiment, a field experiment or a natural field system, a model is always simplified and abstract. With increasing complexity a model should theoretically describe a natural process more and more correctly. Each model is characterised by its concepts, its specific conditions and its parameters. Most important kinds of models are conceptual models, analogy models (e.g. capillary models, or scale models), mathematical models, including statistical and stochastic models.
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Stauffer, F. (1995). Modeling Subsurface Processes. In: Zehnder, A.J.B. (eds) Soil and Groundwater Pollution. Soil & Environment, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8587-3_4
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