Hydroinformatics and Data-Based Modelling Issues in Hydrology

This chapter highlights and addresses some basic issues associated with data-based modeling. The chapter starts with a brief description of emergence and development of hydroinformatics as a potent segment of mainstream hydrology and proceeds to the ignored or least considered modeling queries existing in hydrology, e.g., how much benefit could be gained by increased complexity in data-based models or whether increased complexity adversely affects model performance. The chapter reminds one of the need to evaluate existing hypothetic assumptions on various modeling properties.

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