Distributed Hydrological Modelling

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. The Role of Distributed Hydrological Modelling in Water Resources Management

   • J. C. Refsgaard, M. B. Abbott

   Pages 1-16

3. Terminology, Modelling Protocol And Classification of Hydrological Model Codes

   • J. C. Refsgaard

   Pages 17-39

4. Construction, Calibration And Validation of Hydrological Models

   • J. C. Refsgaard, B. Storm

   Pages 41-54

5. Distributed Physically-Based Modelling Of The Entire Land Phase of The Hydrological Cycle

   • B. Storm, A. Refsgaard

   Pages 55-69

6. Multi-Species Reactive Transport Modelling

   • Peter Engesgaard

   Pages 71-91

7. Soil Erosion Modelling

   • J. K. Lørup, M. Styczen

   Pages 93-120

8. Agrochemical Modelling

   • M. Thorsen, J. Feyen, M. Styczen

   Pages 121-141

9. Weather Radar Precipitation Data And Their Use In Hydrological Modelling

   • C. G. Collier

   Pages 143-163

10. Application of Remote Sensing For Hydrological Modelling

    • F. P. De Troch, P. A. Troch, Z. Su, D. S. Lin

    Pages 165-191

11. Geological Modelling

    • M. Hansen, P. Gravesen

    Pages 193-214

12. Use Of GIS And Database with Distributed Modelling

    • F. Deckers, C. B. M. Te Stroet

    Pages 215-232

13. An Engineering Case Study - Modelling the Influences of Gabcikovo Hydropower Plant on the Hydrology and Ecology in the Slovakian Part of the River Branch System of Zitny Ostrov

    • H. R. Sørensen, J. Klucovska, J. Topolska, T. Clausen, J. C. Refsgaard

    Pages 233-253

14. A Discussion of Distributed Hydrological Modelling

    • Keith J. Beven

    Pages 255-278

15. Comment on ’A Discussion of Distributed Hydrological Modelling’ by K. Beven

    • J. C. Refsgaard, B. Storm, M. B. Abbott

    Pages 279-287

16. Response to comments on ‘a discussion of distributed hydrological modelling’ by j c refsgaard et al

    • Keith J. Beven

    Pages 289-295

17. Hydrological Modelling in a Hydroinformatics Context

    • A. W. Minns

    Pages 297-312

18. Back Matter

    Pages 313-324

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It is the task of the engineer, as of any other professional person, to do everything that is reasonably possible to analyse the difficulties with which his or her client is confronted, and on this basis to design solutions and implement these in practice. The distributed hydrological model is, correspondingly, the means for doing everything that is reasonably possible - of mobilising as much data and testing it with as much knowledge as is economically feasible - for the purpose of analysing problems and of designing and implementing remedial measures in the case of difficulties arising within the hydrological cycle. Thus the aim of distributed hydrologic modelling is to make the fullest use of cartographic data, of geological data, of satellite data, of stream discharge measurements, of borehole data, of observations of crops and other vegetation, of historical records of floods and droughts, and indeed of everything else that has ever been recorded or remembered, and then to apply to this everything that is known about meteorology, plant physiology, soil physics, hydrogeology, sediment transport and everything else that is relevant within this context. Of course, no matter how much data we have and no matter how much we know, it will never be enough to treat some problems and some situations, but still we can aim in this way to do the best that we possibly can.

• Erosion
• GIS
• Geoinformationssysteme
• Remote Sensing
• ecology
• geographic data
• hydrology
• model
• modeling
• pollution
• verification
• hydrogeology
• terrestrial pollution
• remote sensing/photogrammetry

` ... adequate index ... makes the location of information ... much more accessible ... I strongly recommend examination of this book for the thoughful discussion on the philosophy of distributed hydrologic modelling alone.'
Journal of the American Water Resources Association (1997)

• International Institute for Infrastructural, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, Delft, The Netherlands

  Michael B. Abbott

• Danish Hydraulic Institute, Hørsholm, Denmark

  Jens Christian Refsgaard

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