All models are wrong: some models are useful
– Noel de Nevers in his book ‘Air Pollution Control Engineering’.
It's true whether you believe in it or not. Ideally, the perfect air pollutant concentration model would allow us to predict the concentrations that would result from any specified set of pollutant emissions, for any specified meteorological conditions, at any location, for any time period, with total confidence in our prediction.
However, the best currently available models are far from this ideal. In fact, all these models are simplifications of a reality, leading to my belief too that all atmospheric models are wrong but some of them are useful for the qualitative study only.
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