*3.1.11 Limitations of the model*

Recent research calls for increased field-based erosion assessment and monitoring because it is challenging to anticipate erosion potential using models [151]. In addition to being instruments for simulation and predictability, models are tools for understanding. As a result, models can be thought of as both instruments for understanding and tools for controlling variables, trends, and disparities between data that are distinct in terms of space or time [152]. There is always a potential that what models transmit is insufficient or even incorrect, and these deficiencies may not be obvious to the model user or the recipient of the model output as models are also used to communicate research and its results [153].
