Abstract Land-Use and Land-Cover Change is significant to a range of themes and issues
central to the study of global change. The alterations it effects in the surface of the earth hold …

Model calibration is a critical phase in the modelling process, and the need for a well-
established calibration strategy is obvious. Therefore a systematic approach for model …

In science, engineering and economics, decision problems are frequently modelled by
optimizing the value of a (primary) objective function under stated feasibility constraints. In …

Hydrologic and water quality models are increasingly used to determine the environmental
impacts of climate variability and land management. Due to differing model objectives and …

Inspired by the rapidly increasing power of computers and the development of geographical
information systems and digital terrain maps, distributed models in hydrology (and other …

This paper deals with the analysis of complex environmental models. It is argued that such
models are needed to predict environmental change outside current conditions. The use of …

Dynamic phytoplankton succession models are an essential instrument to improve scientific
knowledge on the development of algal blooms characterized by a specific composition and …

Automatic greenhouse production is quite new in China. For the development of our modern
agriculture it is a significant issue to accurately formulate the simulation growth models of …

A fundamental problem in water quality modeling is adequately representing the changing
state of aquatic ecosystems as accurately as possible, but with appropriate mathematical …

A variety of computational techniques have been developed to efficiently and effectively
draw realizations from the parameter space of watershed models for parameter estimation …