Environmental Modelling

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This is a lecture note series for the course ENGO 583/ENEN 635 Environmental Modelling. These cover the following topics: nature and purpose of environmental modelling; the top-down and the bottom-up approaches; typology of environmental models; definition of fundamental concepts; steps involved in designing and building a model; calibration, verification and validation of models; scale dependency; sensitivity analysis; characteristics, architecture and functioning of selected environmental models.
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©2018 by Quazi K. Hassan, University of Calgary, licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. No claim to works/information adopted from either public domain or other licensed sources. Professor Quazi K. Hassan produces these lecture notes on environmental modelling that he has been teaching since 2009. He and the University of Calgary do not assume any responsibility for the applicability of these materials or the consequences of their use. He puts his best effort not to infringe others’ copyright. However, if anyone finds an unintentional mistake, he sincerely apologizes and requests you to communicate him at qhassan@ucalgary.ca for taking the necessary actions.
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