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Existing and planned hydrologic and climatic models have important implications for water resource management in the twenty-first century and, yet, the science of validation of such models is inadequately developed to warrant full reliance on these models. Tools for such validation must be carefully crafted and broadly tested in a critical environment. Here we develop a set of validation tools and a recommended protocal for validation using graphical workstations and the programming language “S” as the key support elements. The protocol is illustrated by an example, and the recommended validation protocol is summarized in Table 1.
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Craig, R.G., Wood, E.F. (1991). Validation of Climate Models with Workstation Tools. In: Loucks, D.P., da Costa, J.R. (eds) Decision Support Systems. NATO ASI Series, vol 26. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76048-8_5
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