All models are wrong, but are they useful? Assessing reliability across multiple sites to build trust in urban drainage modelling

Pedersen, Agnethe Nedergaard; Brink-Kjær, Annette; Mikkelsen, Peter Steen

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-5879-2022

Articles | Volume 26, issue 22

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 26, 5879–5898, 2022

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-5879-2022

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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 26, 5879–5898, 2022

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-5879-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 26, issue 22

Research article

24 Nov 2022

Research article | 24 Nov 2022

All models are wrong, but are they useful? Assessing reliability across multiple sites to build trust in urban drainage modelling

Agnethe Nedergaard Pedersen et al.

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-5879-2022-supplement

Data sets

Dataset for Bellinge: An urban drainage case study A. N. Pedersen, J. W. Pedersen, A. Vigueras-Rodriguez, A. Brink-jær, M. Borup, and P. S. Mikkelsen https://doi.org/10.11583/DTU.c.5029124.v1

Short summary

A framework for assessing the reliability of urban drainage models is developed in this paper. The method applies observation data from water level sensors and model results for up to 10 years of data for 23 sites in two case areas in Odense, Denmark. With the use of signatures as a method to extract information from the time series, it is possible to differentiate the performance for different model objectives.