| Session Details | |
| Section | HS - Hydrological Sciences |
| Session Title | Performance evaluation of hydrological models |
| Main Convener | Prof. Ke-Sheng Cheng (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) |
| Co-convener(s) | Prof. Yasuto Tachikawa (Kyoto University, Japan) |
| Session Description | Hydrological models are useful tools for hydrological forecasting and effect assessment under certain scenarios. For example, they have been widely applied to flood forecasting and assessing the hydrological effects of climate changes. However, hydrological modeling also involves many sources of uncertainties and, as a result, hydrological models and their outputs should be evaluated with very keen consideration on their uncertainties and related statistical properties. Unfortunately, such careful interpretation of model outputs has been ignored or overlooked in many studies. From the water resources decision-making point of view, a policy cannot be put forward unless the risk it may involve has been carefully investigated. To address the importance of hydrological model evaluation contributions related to the following subjects are invited: 1. identifying model uncertainties 2. novel approaches for model evaluation 3. modeling and quantifying model errors 4. Interpretation of model outputs with regard to their statistical properties. 5. evaluation of model sensitivity 6. Indicators of model performance 7. other issues related to hydrological model validation |