Bennett, NeilCroke, BarryJakeman, AnthonyNewham, LachlanNorton, John2015-12-10July 5-8 29788890357411http://hdl.handle.net/1885/60976For environmental models to be effectively used for management and decision making purposes it is necessary to have confidence in their performance. This paper reviews techniques available for performance evaluation of environmental models. Both quantitative and qualitative performance evaluation are considered and application recommendations for environmental models are provided.Keywords: Environmental model; Model development; Model testing; Performance evaluation; Performance indicators; Benchmarking; Decision making; Sensitivity analysis; Software testing Model development; Model testing; Performance indicators; Sensitivity analysis20102016-02-24