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Event Debrief:Decision support groundwater modelling - in spirit or in fact? (GWD GAU)

22 Apr 2022
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GWD Talk:Decision support groundwater modelling - in spirit or in fact? (GWD GAU)

  • Groundwater Modelling
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GWD Talk:Decision support groundwater modelling - in spirit or in fact? (GWD GAU)

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Starting From The Problem And Working Backwards

Many groundwater models are commissioned and built under the premise that real world systems can be accurately simulated on a computer - especially if the simulator has been "calibrated" against historical behavior of that system. This premise ignores the fact that natural processes are complex at every level, and that the properties of systems that host them are heterogeneous at every scale. Models are, in fact, defective simulators of natural processes. Furthermore, the information content of datasets against which they are calibrated is generally low.