Talk:Groundwater model

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[edit] Old talk

This article was made on 11:58, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

R.J.Oosterbaan 20:16, 13 June 2007 (UTC) The "first draft" was conceived by me. As an agricultural engineer (iirigation and drainage) I have had no training in groundwater modeling, but in my work in many countries I had to deal with groundwater, especially in salinized soils in irrigated lands. Because of the need to diagnose the soil salinity problems (on which the groundwater flow exerts a geat influence, especially in alluvial fans, large river valleys, river deltas and coastal lowlands) and to assess the impact of reclamation works, I made my own model that includes agricultural aspects and farmers' responses. Initially programmed in Fortran, later with a Turbo Pascal interface, and recently I managed to make a windows version using Delphi. The program is quite big. I am now 68, have retired, and found the time do so. The software is on my website and from correspondence it became clear that the model is used. What I really want to say is: I would like to have support to improve the article as I am feeling something is missing I will watch the talk page to see if anyone would like to go into discussion or whether independent updates were made.
R.J.Oosterbaan 20:16, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

I have come to the conclusion that the relatively long part on the principles of SahysMod should be moved to a separate page with mutual links. I will do so some time. This page should more be devoted to describing briefly the existing models, in a kind of general framework, while for more details, each model must be found on another page.
R.J.Oosterbaan 20:55, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

On 22 June Groundwater model was given additional links and the SahysMod part was moved to a separate page by Mwtoews. Nice job.
R.J.Oosterbaan 18:40, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Illustration request

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I'm sure there are some nice visual representations from one computer model or another that could be included. -- Beland (talk) 17:28, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Two figures were added to accommodate Beland´s request, but perhaps nicer visual representations could be included. R.J.Oosterbaan (talk) 18:00, 19 February 2008 (UTC)