hydrology Hydrology () is the scientific study of the movement, distribution, and management of water on Earth and other planets, including the water cycle, water resources, and environmental watershed sustainability. A practitioner of hydrology is calle ...

, behavioral modeling is a modeling approach that focuses on the modeling of the behavior of hydrological systems. The behavioral modeling approach makes the main assumption that every system, given its environment, has a most probable behavior. This most probable behavior can be either determined directly based on the

observable In physics, an observable is a physical quantity that can be measured. Examples include position and momentum. In systems governed by classical mechanics, it is a real-valued "function" on the set of all possible system states. In quantum phys ...

system characteristics and expert knowledge or, the most frequent case, has to be inferred from the available information and a

likelihood The likelihood function (often simply called the likelihood) represents the probability of random variable realizations conditional on particular values of the statistical parameters. Thus, when evaluated on a given sample, the likelihood funct ...

function that encodes the

probability Probability is the branch of mathematics concerning numerical descriptions of how likely an Event (probability theory), event is to occur, or how likely it is that a proposition is true. The probability of an event is a number between 0 and ...

of some assumed behaviors. This modeling approach has been proposed by Sivapalan et al. (2006) in

watershed Watershed is a hydrological term, which has been adopted in other fields in a more or less figurative sense. It may refer to: Hydrology * Drainage divide, the line that separates neighbouring drainage basins * Drainage basin, called a "watershe ...

hydrology.

References

*Sivapalan, M., et al. (2006), Behavioural modelling - A new approach for hydrologic prediction, paper presented at the worksho
''Preferential flow and transport processes in soil''
November 4-9, 2006, Ascona,Switzerland. Hydrology

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