Environmental Modelling: An Uncertain Future?: An Introduction to Techniques for Uncertainty Estimation in Environmental Prediction

ISBN-13: 9780415457590 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 328 str.

Keith Beven

Opis

Introduces students, scientists and decision makers to the different concepts and techniques of uncertainty estimation in environmental prediction; and the philosophical background to different concepts of uncertainty. This book is suitable for environmental modellers, practitioners and decision makers in hydrology, hydraulics and ecology.

Spis treści

1. How to Make Predictions  2. A Philosophical Diversion  3. Simulation with No Historical Data Available  4. Simulation with Historical Data Available  5. Forecasting the Near Future  6. Decision Making When Faced with Uncertainty  7. An Uncertain Future? 

O autorze

Keith Beven is Professor of Hydrology and Fluid Dynamics at Lancaster University. While finishing this book he was at Uppsala University in Sweden as Konung Carl XVI Gustafs Gästprofessor i Miljövetenskap 2006/07.