Integrated Water Resources Management

I would like to try and address a few questions about model documentation. This is often said to be an important part of building models for Integrated Water Resources Management because there are usually a lot of people involved from various disciplines and backgrounds. Typically you will see two different forms of documentation out there, including user documentation and programmer documentation. The user documentation is usually created to assist the end user interact with the input controls and view the results. The latter is usually there to help the user and/or programmer how the program actually works. So, first and foremost: What is model documentation? Model documentation is written text that accompanies the computer model. It either explains how it operates or how to use it or both, and may mean different things to people in different roles (Wikipedia, 2011). Why do people think documentation is important? The US Army Corps of Engineers (which happens to develop som...