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Towards an alternative blueprint for a physically-based digitally simulated hydrologic response modelling system. / Beven, K. J.
In: Hydrological Processes, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2002, p. 189-206.

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title = "Towards an alternative blueprint for a physically-based digitally simulated hydrologic response modelling system.",
abstract = "A critique of the Freeze and Harlan blueprint for a distributed physically based hydrological model leads to the conclusion that it will be abandoned. An alternative blueprint as a modelling methodology is proposed that explicitly recognises the potential for equifinality in scale-dependent model representations. An inductive rather than deductive definition of physically-based is proposed that reflects the important role of observables in constraining the feasible models.",
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