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Before, commenting on Keith Beven’s questions we should like to emphasize two issues relating to our terminology and our assessments of the key objectives of distributed hydrological modelling. Indeed, since the terminology used by Beven differs in some respects significantly from the terminology used in some of the other chapters of this book, we should like first to define some key terms as we have used them in the present discussion. We begin by distinguishing between a model and a modelling system. A model is defined as a particular hydrological model established for a particular catchment. A modelling system or a model code, on the other hand, is defined as a generalized software package which can be used without program changes to establish a model with a range of generic basic types of equations (but allowing different parameter values) for different catchments. We then define model validation as the validation of a site-specific model, while code verification refers to the testing of algorithms etc. Our terminology is defined and discussed in more details in this book by Refsgaard (Chapter 2) and Refsgaard and Storm (Chapter 3).
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Refsgaard, J.C., Storm, B., Abbott, M.B. (1990). Comment on ’A Discussion of Distributed Hydrological Modelling’ by K. Beven. In: Abbott, M.B., Refsgaard, J.C. (eds) Distributed Hydrological Modelling. Water Science and Technology Library, vol 22. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0257-2_14
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