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In [[Earth:Hydrology|hydrology]], '''behavioral modeling''' is a [[Scientific modelling|modeling]] approach that focuses on the modeling of the behavior of hydrological [[Philosophy:System|system]]s.
The behavioral modeling approach makes the main assumption that every system, given its environment, has a most [[Probability|probable]] behavior. This most probable behavior can be either determined directly based on the [[Physics:Observable|observable]] system characteristics and expert knowledge or, the most frequent case, has to be inferred from the available information and a likelihood function that encodes the [[Probability|probability]] of some assumed behaviors. 
 
This modeling approach has been proposed by Sivapalan et al. (2006) in [[Earth:Drainage basin|watershed]] hydrology.

== See also ==
* [[Earth:Ecohydrology|Ecohydrology]]
* [[Physics:Geomorphology|Geomorphology]]
* [[Biology:Biogeomorphology|Biogeomorphology]]
* [[Earth:Fluvial landforms of streams|Fluvial landforms of streams]]

==References==
*Sivapalan, M., et al. (2006), Behavioural modelling - A new approach for hydrologic prediction, paper presented at the workshop [https://web.archive.org/web/20061020021136/http://www.ito.ethz.ch/conferences/preferential-flow/ ''Preferential flow and transport processes in soil''], November 4-9, 2006, Ascona,Switzerland.

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