Hydrocourse 2016

Model building, inference and hypothesis testing in hydrology

The LIST's Environmental Research & Innovation (ERIN) department is organising a short course entitled "Model building, inference and hypothesis testing in Hydrology", in Belvaux, Luxembourg from 11 to 15 April 2016.
The main goal is to expose students to the technical aspects of hydrological modelling, including numerical implementation, uncertainty analysis, and conceptual model building.

Environmental modellers increasingly require practical and robust approaches for model development and evaluation.
The Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology jointly with the University of Adelaide (Australia) and the Eawag (Switzerland) is presenting a short course on several major themes within hydrological modelling, with the aim of providing some key background of the subject and overviewing recent developments.
The summer school will include a 1-day field trip to several experimental catchments in Luxembourg, which will then form part of the modelling exercises. The course will cover the following themes:

• Hydrological model building
• Robust numerical techniques for model implementation
• Intro into Bayesian inference for model calibration and uncertainty analysis
• Fieldwork to inform model development ("dialogue between modeller and experimentalist")
• Model evaluation and hypothesis testing, primarily for catchment-scale models

Get more information on the course website: http://hydrocourse.list.lu/