Abstract
A general strategy for constructing hierarchical models of complex systems is introduced and compared with a pure analytic and pure synthetic approach. The strategy is a formalization of standard scientific procedures for gaining understanding of systems. The strategy is stated and demonstrated in terms of the FLEX modelling approach and paradigm. Some details of the FLEX hierarchical structure especially coupling specifics are elaborated. The actual demonstration of the strategy spans two papers. The first covers the evolutionary development and elaboration of a single level hydrology model including the elaboration of considerable mechanistic detail.8 The present paper completes the example by exhibiting how the structure implicit in the elaborated single level model is explicitly identified within the REFLEX hierarchical structure.
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