Open AccessReply [to “Numerical modeling strategies revisited”]
Author(s) -
Murray A. Brad
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2003eo110008
Subject(s) - natural (archaeology) , computer science , point (geometry) , management science , engineering , history , mathematics , geometry , archaeology
I thank D. Harry for bringing further attention to the questions of numerical modeling goals, strategies, and approaches, and for clarifying that simulation models—those designed to reproduce the behavior of specific natural systems as accurately as possible—can serve valuable scientific purposes. I agree with this point and allude to it in Murray [2003], a fuller version of the earlier discussion in Eos . In the situations Harry describes, we believe we know the main physical and/or chemical interactions that are important in a system. In such cases, simulation models can be useful for addressing more detailed questions, as Harry outlines, to help improve our understanding of particular natural examples in various ways.