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1. A eee 45 ree a o a oe me a a ae 18 Mott MacDonald Software Demeter House Station Road Cambridge CBI 2RS United Kingdom Producers of IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT GAME MAHAKALI NILE SAIDIYA SUKKUR 19 Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering North Carolina State University Prof W R Skaggs P O Box 7265 Raleigh NC 27695 USA Producers of DRAINMOD 20 Northeast Regional Agricultural Engineering Service Cornell University 152 Riley Robb Hall Cooperative Extension Ithaca NY 14853 USA Producers of BURBS MOUSE REHAB RIVER BALANCE SOIL WATER BUDGETING SUBDRAIN ANNEX 2 E 167 tr m t 21 Overseas Development Unit Hydraulics Research Ltd Mr J Skutsch Wallingford Oxon OX10 8BA United Kingdom PO Producers of CALSITE DACSE DORC HADES INCA MIDAS SWIMM PARADIGM Mau o A a s A i a ne ne ree ere ew ee 22 Silsoe College i po Department of Agricultural Water Management Carter Silsoe Bedford MK45 4DT United Kingdom Producers of JUBA SUGAR ESTATE GAME 23 The Winand Staring Centre Dr P Kabat P O Box 35 6700 AA Wageningen The Netherlands Producers of BALANCE FLOWEX SIWARE SWATRE SWACROP Software Engineering Division Department of Biological and Irrigation Engineering Pro
2. NELDER NESTOR NETDES NILE OMIS OPTIPIPE PENMAN PB2DIAM PCET PROFILE RAIEOPT RAINBOW RBC REHAB REGRESS REUSE RICEID RICEYLD RR 2 0 RSM SAIDYA SALTMOD SATEM SCHED SCREEN SEWER SGMP SIC SIMBOL SIMNET 171 19 22 72 107 73 74 108 137 94 93 94 95 98 109 55 62 157 71 108 54 58 108 157 50 52 138 63 19 21 22 72 107 134 73 75 108 139 61 62 63 108 140 157 152 33 124 42 28 50 56 84 108 141 43 93 94 95 96 142 67 108 118 16 19 21 23 24 50 52 107 143 157 PES 83 90 92 108 144 73 75 96 97 145 149 72 83 87 88 91 108 146 83 87 90 108 147 31 157 157 83 86 87 88 108 146 148 54 108 16 17 23 107 62 64 PROGRAM NAMES SIMULNDO SIMWAT SIMYIELD SIWARE SNUSM SRFR SUBDRAIN SUKKUR SURFACE SURFER SURMOD SWACRO SWACROP SWATR SWATRE SWATRER SWM II SYMO TIDE TKB TOPOCAD TRICKLE UCA UNDP USM WADPRO WADU WARABANDI WASAM WATNET WATSCHED WAVES WYEGAME XERXES RENFORS 172 145 149 54 57 94 96 97 109 145 149 73 77 54 56 38 40 44 107 120 150 84 90 151 19 20 23 107 152 153 38 40 107 154 93 94 95 38 107 154 84 90 155 83 86 91 108 155 84 156 84 86 156 83 84 85 90 108 131 155 156 43 54 57 83 83 _ 93 94 62 73 77 78 60 61 64 1
3. 2280 HV Rijswijk The Netherlands formerly Bureau SAMWAT Price of version 2 0 is NLG 750 excl VAT what available Two 3 5 DS DD diskettes containing program version 1 1 and examples gt Spaans W N Booij Praagman R Noorman amp J Lander 1991 DUFLOW a microcomputer package for the simulation of one dimensional unsteady flow in open channel systems IHE DGW TUD Delft 92 pp Clemmens A J amp F M Holly 1991 Description and evaluation of program DUFLOW In Ritter W F Irrigation amp Drainage ASCE Hawaii 418 424 what required IBM compatible PC under MS DOS with 640 kB internal memory graphics card CGA EGA VGA Olivetti Hercules preferably a math co processor two 360 kB floppy drives or equivalent a hard disk is recommended written in The non interactive calculation module is in Fortran 77 The interactive input and output modules in GW Basic remarks After making a directory c duflow and copying all files thereto program starts upon typing DUFLOW subsequently one must check Setup and Filenames Main program consists of three basic options Input Calculations and Output Input and Output are logically subdivided in Submenu s Manual is useful has background theory program structure and operation with example in App B Getting started nicely explained Program runs through example without problems An educational version with limited possibili
4. PC AT but will also run XT with longer pauses 384 RAM and MS DOS 2 0 or higher will fit on one 360 kB floppy size is 350 kB written Prospero Fortran 77 Cambridge Computer Graphics Ltd remarks Start by typing AUTOEXEC after logging to drive Objectives of the game are not immediately clear what do I do Graphics are nice nicer still in colour Switch between Introduction and Game is cumbersome Abbreviations on the screen are not properly explained KFE Question is what the game teaches you if you do not operate Sukkur Barrage The brief manual could have contained more explanations so as to make it more widely usable FORMS 154 Program 40 SURFACE what it does The program assists in the design of surface irrigation systems borders furrows basins and is based on the volume balance field design cf Walker amp Skogerboe 1987 Three flow regimes for furrows are possible i e normal cut back and re use of tailwater Extensive input data have to be supplied facilitated by input data screens made where For FAO Rome by Prof W R Walker Dept of Agric amp Irrig Engineering Utah State Univ Logan Utah 84322 4105 USA Available free from FAO from Utah State Univ at USD 100 00 15 00 what available 3 5 disk with 10 user files in 307 kB of which SURFACE EXE dated 2 10 89 takes 176 kB and Fortran source codes the remaind
5. 60 MB hard disk with a VGA colour screen written in not stated remarks After installation to c incdem and logging there typing ST INCA will start the demonstration see instruction sheet Program seems indeed to be an integrated package including separate functions like calculating water requirements preparing cropping patterns making irrigation schedules allocating canal target flows etc Graphics are indeed nice somewhat comparable to the Mott MacDonald standard NILE etc and functional it is the first package that runs under WINDOWS hence the 80386 and 4 MB RAM requirement top of the market too high and too expensive for our normal target group A wide range of options pull down menus are easily e they seem logically structured Difficult to judge how site specific the program is apparently it is besides Thailand also introduced in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh 135 Program 21 IRRIGAME what it does The program asks the user to choose between various input options such as advisory services growing season rainfall reservoir water availability type of irrigation system crop type crop soil options and two agronomic options It then proceeds to provide weekly climatic data and graphical rooting depth and soil depletion requesting you to say week by week whether or not to irrigate and how much to apply You can operate at various speed levels In the end a summary and plot
6. Basic for HEADLOSS MINTREE LINPROG NELDER Fortran compiler if you want to change FLOW gt written in Basic 9 programs and Fortran only FLOW remarks The five most interesting for irrigation are BRANCH LOOP FLOW MINTREE and HEADLOSS BRANCH and LOOP operate under the same PROGRAMS EXE file which should be used to start either they run correctly FLOW does seem to have problems with the input and output directories the EXE version cannot be changed and HEADLOSS do a very small job correctly under the Basic version of the Compaq test machine BRANCH apparently does the same as OPTIPIPE but better FORMS 158 Program 44 WASAM what it does This Water Allocation Scheduling And Monitoring program is used in the day to day water management of large scale irrigation schemes It is based on an intensive daily data collection at selected points in the system through a structured organisation for main system laterals and canal sections and ditches It allows comparison of canal flows and other items with expected values so that adjustments can be made subsequently It is thus clearly made to be an operational tool made where ILACO Euroconsult P O Box 441 6800 AK Arnhem The Netherlands what available A 3 5 diskette with 38 program files and 13 data files Some information about the Kinda Irrigation Scheme in Burma where WASAM was apparently develope
7. Italy what available A version of the OPTIMIZING PIPES DIAMETER program renamed OPTIPIPE by us dated August 1988 most recent file on a 3 5 disk Manual for OPTIMIZING PIPES DIAMETER FAO and PIT s Land amp Water Dev Div FAO Rome No year 68 pp Annex Use of the programme pages 233 244 of FAO Irrigation amp Drainage Paper 44 from Labye et al 1988 Literature Y Labye et al 1988 Design and optimization of irrigation distribution networks Irrigation amp Drainage Paper 44 FAO Rome Chapter 4 Design and optimization techniques of pressure distribution networks pp 89 146 what required IBM PC XT or AT or compatible with minimum 260 kB RAM and a printer written in Basic in 11 program modules and many data files for the example Size is about 222 kB gt remarks Start by typing OPTIPIPE after logging to relevant drive The options appearing at the start are not clear e g do they take you through the example or are you starting a new network There are sequential errors in the manual Upon entering the data of Fig 37 F1 and Fig 39 F2 as mentioned in part II of the Manual two errors appeared i e On ascending the network F3 the program aborts subscript out of range On descending the network F4 program aborts input past end Program as we have it does not work properly 141 Program 27 PROFILE what it does Calculates
8. J Feyen 1992 FISDEV a software package for design and evaluation of furrow irrigation systems Center for Irrigation Engineering Leuven Belgium 52 pp Zerihun D amp J Feyen 1992 FISDEV a software package for design and evaluation of furrow irrigation systems Proc 16th Europ Conf ICID Budapest vol III 189 195 what required IBM XT AT or compatible with a minimum of 360 kB RAM Math co processor and VGA recommended written in Turbo Pascal remarks As this is only a preliminary version these remarks may not hold for the final product Creating a DB directory tree takes a long time an installation procedure may be indicated Help screens require editing and are not always clear The file handling facilities easily lead to confusion There is no consistency in the use of Modules and Modes The final version of the manual would benefit from another introduction Chapters 1 4 of the draft manual could be replaced by an improved section on furrow irrigation design and evaluation The manual still lacks a chapter on surface irrigation theory 133 Program 19 FLUME what it does The model computes stage discharge relations and energy losses for long throated flumes and broad crested weirs It can accommodate a wide variety of flume and channel shapes and many different input and output units Input data can entered from the keyboard or be read from a file and s
9. does This program for Border Irrigated Computer Aided Design calculates the design variables in border irrigation systems i e mainly border length and width slope flow rate and application time Inputs are infiltration constants surface roughness and depth to be applied The program can be run in a simple approximate and quick regression mode or in an accurate process mode Results can be plotted made where University of Melbourne Dept of Civil and Agricultural Engineering Parkville Vic 3052 Australia by Dr B L Maheshwari for The Rural Water Commission of Victoria what available A 3 5 disk with version 1 0 dated 10 04 1990 containing the EXE file B1 EXE and two more files Clemmens pers comm mentions that the program is now called BICADAM and that there is a manual We did not have that available while testing what required not stated written in not stated remarks Program starts by typing bl after logging to a Intro screen does not show on Compaq Using a fictitious data set of reasonable values running in the regression mode produces a run time error M6201 MATH and a DOMAIN error Program stops Action required obtain and test most recent version for proper evaluation FORMS 120 Program 6 BRDRFLW what it does The program predicts the behaviour of the surface stream flowing down an irrigation border with a known infiltration curv
10. the end of the basin It is based on the zero inertia approach to solving the Saint Venant equations and applies Newton Raphson iteration for solving resultant non linear equations This happens in a black box One can input certain data and view the resulting design parameters The program can be run in four modes with an increasing number of input variables It produces acceptable design values in modes 1 and 2 and indicates consequences of any changes in modes 3 and 4 The latest version 2 0 introduces pull down menu s on screen help interactive data input and improved file handling made where International Institute for Land Reclamation and Improvement ILRI P O Box 45 6700 AA Wageningen The Netherlands Price NLG 28 00 Publ 43 disk what available A 3 5 disk with an EXE file which cannot be changed May 1992 The manual Boonstra J amp R Jurri ns 1988 BASCAD a mathematical model for level basin irrigation Publ 43 ILRI Wageningen Jurri ns M amp J Boonstra 1991 Level basin irrigation some examples of design and operation In Annual report 1991 ILRI Wageningen 8 20 what required IBM PC XT AT with MS DOS operating system gt written in Basic Fortran Shell for version 2 0 in Pascal remarks Version 2 0 has an installation routine The floppy is protected and can only be copied three times The name CAD is misleading as it suggests design drawin
11. the water Balance of a cropped soil under different boundary conditions including the possibility of irrigation and drainage and the calculation of crop yield of potato in this version of March 1989 From one general and 4 specific input data files five output files are generated which contain tabulated figures for the water balance components and yield data The program is based on solving the Richards equation for unsaturated soil moisture flow and additional terms as in SWATRER and on a crop production model CROPR made where J G Wesseling P Kabat B J van den Broek amp R A Feddes The Winand Staring Centre for Integrated Land Soil and Water Research P O Box 125 6700 AA Wageningen what available A 3 5 disk with SWACROP EXE uid SWACROP EXE files the latter for use with a co processor dated July 1991 one SWADAT INP file and four DAT files P Kabat 1991 Agrohydrological simulation model SWACROP notes 30th Int Course Land Drainage ILRI References e g Feddes R A P J Kowalik amp H Zaradny 1978 Simulation of field water use and crop yield Simulation monographs PUDOC Wageningen and Feddes R A 1987 Simulating water management and crop production with the SWACRO model 3rd Int oe on Land Drainage Ohio State VEO what required An IBM PC AT running under DOS A math co processor is recommended Software package BALANCE would be useful gt writt
12. with the standard water use fixed say 0 4 l s ha There are 4 graphs under Names which can be viewed l The idea is not revolutionary but it can form a useful demonstration exercise for the use of spreadsheets for small irrigation problems The sequence of the spreadsheets in terms of level of difficulty training is CWRTABLE MAINSYST FORMS 138 Program 24 NESTOR what it does This set of programs calculates steady non uniform flow in channel sections of various shapes For a maximum of 30 reaches water profiles are calculated i e the eight relevant variables are connected Output is tabulated in a data sheet but graphical output is also possible A maximum of 11 different cross section per canal reach and five structures per section can be included made where G J Hunink Int Agric College Larenstein Laarweg 6 6882 AA Velp The Netherlands Restricted availability what available NESTIN NESTOL and NESTUD executive files for input as the major program and for student demonstration respectively Version number is 1 0 dated 1991 what required A math co processor is required other requirements not specified The total package fits on a HD floppy only AT machines or higher written in not stated gt remarks programs are apparently mainly intended for demonstration and use by College students and not specifically made for further distribution In
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14. 2 4105 USA Available from G P Merkley via USU at USD 50 00 15 00 postage what available 1991 version of the CANAL program on a 3 5 HD disk Pascal in F N Gichuki 1988 1 Development of a branching canal network hydraulic model WMS II report 72 2 User s manual for the Fortran version of USU n main system hydraulic model WMS II report 73 Logan Utah G P Merkley 1987 Users manual for the Pascal version of the USU main system hydraulic model WMS II report 75 Logan Utah G P Merkley amp D C Rogers 1991 Description and evaluation of program CANAL In Ritter W F Irrigation and Drainage ASCE Hawaii 390 396 what required IBM AT machine or compatible EGA card high resolution colour monitor 80287 co processor minimum 640 KB RAM and a hard disk DOS version 3 1 or higher written in MS Pascal 3 31 with assembly language routines for screen display remarks The DOS ah name has to be adjusted in 1 the CDAT program first In the CDAT program a separate EXE file input files are created and edited there isa sample case file LNOR After leaving CDAT typing CANAL a separate EXE file starts the simulation There is a clear manual WMS 75 with background and operating instructions There is an attractive choice between graphics and tabular data for a wide range of variables a simulation can be interrupted for interactive changes The Pascal version is n
15. 3 108 86 92 155 38 39 40 43 107 115 116 42 107 116 66 108 118 66 67 69 108 117 118 42 43 107 119 43 28 62 157 37 38 39 40 44 107 120 73 76 108 50 52 54 57 108 121 54 56 83 84 50 52 41 42 107 122 54 56 108 59 49 50 51 58 84 108 123 128 30 76 78 79 108 27 125 52 26 27 34 107 124 33 33 25 26 27 28 29 30 33 34 107 124 125 136 26 28 107 126 137 68 27 33 131 136 50 51 127 83 84 89 91 108 115 83 84 108 128 137 86 83 88 92 108 129 61 62 108 53 54 55 94 108 130 PROGRAM NAMES 170 ETCROP ETO ETREF ETSPLIT FARM MAN GAME FISDEV FLOW FLUME GINAS GREEN REV GAME HADES HARDYC HAZEN W HEADLOSS IAP ICARE ICSS ILM INCA IRRICAD IRRIGAME IRRISKED IRRITALK IRR MAN GAME IRRREO IRSCHED 33 IRSIS IRRTURNS ISAREG JUBA KLM LACEY LANDLEV LEVLGRAM LINPROG LOOP LYMPHA 26 27 33 131 136 28 26 27 33 131 136 27 33 131 136 17 24 43 45 107 132 154 62 157 66 67 68 108 118 133 60 64 16 68 61 61 62 108 61 157 152 62 253 57 73 108 134 42 63 108 19 21 107 135 31 31 16 18 33 107 28 26 27 29 30 33 107 124 136 31 31 34 16 17 23 107 83 157 62 157 55 57 108 o INDEX MAHAKALI MAINSYST MECENE MIDAS MIKE 11 MINTREE MIS MODIS
16. ATCH3D DAT Although a program like SURFER may yield similar graphics it is nice that all kinds of uniformity parameters are calculated A simple and useful program e g for educational purposes Especially the 3D plotting facility is a nice feature for research reports etc We did not look at other data files like DONUT SIDEROL etc 123 Program 9 CID what it does Calculates irrigation and drainage canals for uniform stationary flow using Manning s formula Canals may be trapezoidal or rectangular and lined or unlined Calculations are made per canal section i e per stretch with constant canal dimension variables Four calculation options are present i e for normal situations for minimum slope for minimum earth work volume and minimum earth work cost Both numerical and graphical results are produced and can be sent to a printer or a file for future use made where COMPAS a combined initiative of International Agricultural College Larenstein Laarweg 6 6882 AA Velp and The Department of Land amp Water Use of the Agric University Nieuwlanden 11 6709 PA Wageningen both in The Netherlands Author is Ir J B M Swennenhuis Restricted availability what available One copied 3 5 disk with version 1 0 for 4 graphics cards The manual Swennenhuis J 1987 CID a program for the Calculation of Irrigation and Drainage canals IAHL Velp Agric Univ Wageningen i what required IBM
17. AVE instruction is given there needs to be space for this on the disk A simple small program suitable for a simple small task FORMS 142 Program 28 RAINBOW what it does Frequency analysis and probability plotting of hydrologic data test of homogeneity of hydrologic records uses Gumbel and transformed normal distributions only made where Center for Irrigation Engineering Catholic University Vital Decosterstraat 102 3000 Leuven Belgium what available 3 5 disk with version 1 6 March 1990 The manual treating version 1 5 October 1989 43 pp what required IBM PC XT AT or fully compatible with 640 kB RAM PC MS DOS 2 xx or higher Monochrome or colour screen Size approx 160 kB excl data amp output files written in Borland s Turbo Pascal 4 0 with SUSI keyboard screen interactions remarks Start from disk type RAINBOW Disk works without problems and according to manual LOGO does not come first screen confusing initially Action bar at the bottom of the screen might be useful The English in the manual should be edited Can be quickly learnt in e g a few hours A nice tool for a relatively simple job 143 Program 29 REHAB what it does The program can be used by an individual or by one or more teams who formulate a plan to rehabilitate a secondary canal command area within given budget and time constrain
18. CROS SWATRER TOPOCAD ANNEX 2 163 05 Delft Hydraulics Division Water Resources and Environment Dr W Schuurmans P O Box 177 2600 MH Delft The Netherlands Producers of OMIS PROFILE 06 Euroconsult Ir M Schellekens P O Box 441 6800 AK Arnhem The Netherlands Producers of WASAM and internal programs AUGER PENMAN TIDE CANALDES HAZEN W LACEY CROPF CROPW REHAB kt IRSCHED TKB SALBAL 07 Informatica Centrum voor Infrastructuur en Milieu bv P O Box 5809 2280 HV Rijswijk The Netherlands Producers of DUFLOW 08 International Agricultural College Larenstein Ir J Schoenmakers P O Box 9001 6880 GB Velp The Netherlands Producers of CID and internal programs ERNST FTW GWSID GWS2DV HOOGHOUD NAMOD NESTOR PPG RONDO SEMSPARE ADDRESSES 164 09 International Ground Water Modeling Center TNO Institute of Applied Geoscience P O Box 6012 2600 JA Delft The Netherlands Distributors of 72 low priced quality groundwater modeling software 10 International Institute for Infrastructural Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering Ir E R Dahmen P O Box 3015 2601 DA Delft The Netherlands Producers of COBRA Benelux agent for MIKE 11 MUST 11 Institute of Irrigation Studies Mr M Burton The University Southampton SO9 5NH United Kingdom Producers of CAMSIS CRWTABLE DRA
19. Costerbaan ILRI revision January 1992 incomplete 43 pp Oosterbaan R J amp M Abu Senna 1989 Using SALTMOD to predict drainage and salinity in the Nile Delta In ILRI Annual report 1989 63 74 Rao K V G K G Ramesh H S Chauhan amp R J Oosterbaan 1992 Salt and water balance studies to evaluate remedial measures for waterlogged saline irrigated soils Proc 5th Int Dr Workshop ICID IWASRI Lahore 2 67 2 77 what required or compatible MS DOS gt 360 kB RAM written in Fortran 77 remarks Running the program with a sample input data file is quick and without problems testing the influence of certain variables a number of consecutive runs can easily be made see e g Oosterbaan amp Abu Senna 1989 thorough study of the manual is required to understand how the program operates and what it can do for the user The many 3 letter abbreviations for input for output and for temporary variables are explained in a separate file but do not ease a quick understanding Preparation of the input data table is typical for older Fortran programs as is the batch processing Output gives seasonal values for a specified number of years in a tabulated form The program is still under development scientific finalising promised in the manual thorough brushing up of the user interface and providing an adequate manual are underway Combination with program SGMP into a r
20. INCAN MAINSYST SCIGRAF 12 International Institute for Land Reclamation and Improvement Dr J Boonstra P O Box 45 6700 AA Wageningen The Netherlands Producers of BASCAD CRIWAR DATSCR RSM SALTMOD SATEM SGMP ANNEX 2 la T 2 16 13 Department of Agricultural Engineering gt i Institute of Agriculture Technical University of Lisbon Prof L S Pereira da Ajuda 1399 Lisboa Codex Portugal Producers of ISAREG 14 Louis Berger International Inc Water and Power Consultancy India Ltd 213 Ansal Chambers II Bhikaiji Cama Place R K Puram New Delhi 110066 India Producers of BCWEIR and irrigation amp drainage courses overview 15 i Water Resources Development and Management Service Land and Water Development Division Mr J Sagardoy Via delle Terme di Carracalla i 00100 Rome Italy Producers of CIMIS CLIMWAT CROPWAT OPTIPIPE SURFACE 16 Department of Irrigation and Soil Conservation Ir T Meijer Agricultural University Nieuwe Kanaal 11 6709 PA Wageningen The Netherlands Producers of CANAL ADDRESSES 166 17 Department of Civil and Agricultural Engineering University of Melbourne Dr B L Maheshwari Parkville Vic 3502 Australia i Producers of BICAD BICADAM we we a m m
21. PC XT AT with a minimum of 512 kB RAM Floppy disk drive 5 25 for original disk Either HGC CGA EGA AT amp T graphics card Epson MX RX FX compatible printer written in Not stated remarks Type EGACID to start after logging to a Help facility is reasonably extensive nicely under F1 Graphics are a nice feature but X section not very informative and top of embankment not shown on longitudinal section Program logic and chosen keys for action are quite OK Program easy to use even without complete manual Made for college level students with simple graphics and no interactions Language of manual and occasionally on screen needs some editing Print out of graphs is not impressive General impression is nicely made small program user friendly and easy to grasp nk ia 3 FORMS 124 Program 10 CRIWAR gt what it does The program calculates CRop Irrigation WAter Requirements of a cropping pattern of up to 40 crops in an irrigation command area using the modified Penman method as described by Doorenbos amp Pruitt 1977 It corrects the crop water requirements in a simple way for the effective precipitation Input data can be stored in a file and output is automatically tabulated in an output file The user is prompted to answer simple questions appearing on screen Weekly or monthly data are calculated made where International Institute for Land Reclamation and Impr
22. ULES card copied from two original 5 25 disks 4 pages text screens on Lower Indus Allocations from P D S Gunn in 1986 Ede P F and P D S Gunn 1987 Computer aided management of Sukkur Barrage Pakistan Proceedings BHS National symposium Hull Univ 33 1 33 5 Dempster J I M S L Marsden amp I K Smout 1989 Computer simulations in games for training irrigation management Irr amp Drainage Systems 3 265 280 Stoner R F J I M Dempster amp S L Marsden 1989 The use of simulation models in the management of irrigation systems In Rydzewski amp Ward Irrigation theory and practice Pentech Press London UK 901 910 what required PC XT AT with Hercules or EGA card demo size 316 kB for each resolution written in Prospero Fortran 77 graphics by Cambridge Graphics Ltd remarks To start after choosing EGA or HERC directory on 3 5 disk type DEMO Rather simple demonstration set up leaving DEMO BAT starting 1 BAT etc Not special demo s but introductions copied from original programs Pump Test Programs regrettably abort on defaults Screens are moving rather quickly on the Compaq Deskpro 386N Insufficient information as to what else the programs can be used for except as a demo for Govt of Sind officials ANNEX 1 153 Program 39 SUKKUR what it does Simulates incoming flows head pond levels canal indent levels and release volumes for the 3 left
23. _ ANNEX 1 113 ANNEX 1 DESCRIPTIVE FORMS Serial no Program BASCAD BASIN BCWEIR BCW RBC BICAD BRDRFLW CANAL CATCH3D CID CRIWAR CROPWAT CWRTABLE DORC DRAINCAN DRAINMOD DUFLOW ETREF FISDEV FLUME INCAdemo IRRIGAME IRSIS MAINS YST NESTOR OMISdemo OPTIPIPE PROFILE RAINBOW REHAB REUSE Mentioned in Ch 6 Field irrigation Ch 6 Field irrigation Ch 9 Structures Ch 9 Structures Ch 6 Field irrigation Ch 6 Field irrigation Ch 7 Canals Ch 6 Field irrigation Ch 7 Canals Ch 5 Scheduling Ch 5 Scheduling Ch 5 Scheduling Ch 7 Canals Ch 11 Drainage Ch 11 Drainage Ch 7 Canals Ch 5 Scheduling Ch 6 Field irrigation Ch 9 Structures Ch 10 Management Ch Games 4 Ch 5 Scheduling Ch 10 Management Ch 7 Canals Ch 10 Management Ch 8 Pipes Ch 7 Canals Ch 12 Other Ch 4 Games Ch 11 Drainage a FORMS Serial no Program RICEYLD SALTMOD SATEM SGMP SIMYIELD SRFR SUBDRAIN SUKdemo SUKKUR SURFACE SWACROP SWATRER UNDP WASAM WYEGAME Mentioned in Ch 12 Other Ch 11 Drainage Ch 11 Drainage Ch 11 Drainage Ch 12 Other Ch 6 Field irrigation Ch 11 Drainage 4 Games Ch 4 Games 6 Field irrigation Ch 11 Drainage Ch 11 Drainage Ch 8 Pipes Ch 10 Management Ch 4 Games 114 115 Program 1 BASCAD what it does BASCAD simulates advance and infiltration in a level basin with water reaching
24. alculated due to lack of existing relationships There is no staggered sowing only slightly staggered land preparation The screen messages and questions are relatively simply laid out there are no menus and no graphics and no choices to point to merely questions to answer with letters or figures Y N 1 2 3 etc File handling is organised with choices appearing on screen making backups etc 3 Data input is old fashioned but proceeds OK using a special module GENRFILE FORMS 146 Program 32 SALTMOD gt what it does Predicts soil salinity and the salt contents of groundwater and drainage effluent in irrigated agricultural land based on seasonal data It also calculates the depth of the groundwater table and the drain discharge Calculations are based on water balances and the salinity of each element is considered to arrive at salt balances Various hydrologic conditions water management options and cropping schedules can be simulated An input data table is converted by the program to an output data table made where R J Oosterbaan International Institute for Land Reclamation and Improvement Box 45 6700 AA Wageningen The Netherlands Limited availability what available A 3 5 disk with the EXE and the FOR program files and additional support files revised version Jan 92 updated from 1986 Oosterbaan Pedroso de Lima A draft manual SALTMOD by RJ
25. and Management Leuven what required IBM PC XT AT or compatible 640 kB RAM PC DOS MS DOS 2 xx or higher minimum 1 FDD CGA and a monochrome monitor written in Turbo Pascal interactions with SUSI Lemmens 1988 remarks The package in fact replaces and extends ETREF ETCROP ETSPLIT and DEFICIT made in Leuven earlier 1986 The interaction with displays using Structured User System Interface a developed by product of IRSIS is a nice improvement for 1988 anyhow when pull down menus were not common Works only for uniform soils and dry foot crops no rice capillary rise is not included nor are leaching distribution losses or delivery systems Hierarchical structure of displays easy to grasp Main gt Libraries gt Members gt Inquire Update gt ID Data Report gt Details e g text tables graphs Working through the case study chapter 4 of the manual takes a few hours leaving out smaller details The total package is a handsome scheduling program but at least a few days are required to become familiar with the terminology the program logic and the keyboard actions Comparable with FAO s CROPWAT Smith 1992 137 Program 23 MAINSYST what it does This spreadsheet either works with a given reference crop relative factor l s ha and calculates the discharge at each tertiary unit and works back up the system to find the total requirement at the source or st
26. arts from a fixed water supply at the source and then distributes this over the respective tertiary unit areas It uses relative areas for various crops crop stages instead of a varying unit discharge l s ha It is thus basically an allocation program made where M A Burton Institute of Irrigation Studies The University Southampton SO9 5NH UK Restricted availability what available 3 5 disk with PENEWON WK worksheets one empty A manual Computer programs for management of irrigation systems Spreadsheets and the relative area method IIS Southampton 24 pp Bullock amp Burton 1988 Spreadsheets for water management a case study from the Brantas Delta East Java Irr amp Dr Syst 2 259 278 Goldsmith Bird amp Howarth 1988 Computerised irrigation Sendung using spreadsh et models Irr amp Dr Syst 2 211 227 what required IBM PC computer with 384 kB memory and Lotus 1 2 3 or QuattroPro software written ME Lotus 1 2 3 gt remarks Summary Manual p 10 is in columns A H rest is to the right no worksheet PENEWONA WKT p 12 copied which gives Worksheet file revision out of date error TWIN simple and free spreadsheet like Lotus 1 2 3 No Kapongan scheme files present Manual p 4 Ch 5 Spreadsheet is configured for particular scheme but idea can be DOLTOWEG for other schemes t calculates allocations with either the water supply at the source fixed or
27. ation routine works OK see Manual p 3 10 and file INSTALL INF hourly rainfall data may pose a problem in many locations not measured Program made for humid climate steady state irrigation option available but does not seem very appropriate Running time without co processor for simple example DCNVBN is 15 minutes which is rather long The program promises graphs for hydrologic data files no such sample files are present with the package so no graphs could be checked Test output file was made can be viewed and printed OK The subject matter is not simple and a careful study of the input data 9 editing screens files is required the manual gives good practical advice theory is in a reference report Skaggs 1980 FORMS 130 Program 16 DUFLOW what it does Provides a hydrodynamic user oriented package for unsteady flow computations in networks of open water courses It addresses e g propagation of tidal waves in estuaries flood waves in rivers and operation of irrigation and drainage systems Free flow in open channels is simulated and canal sections and control structures like weirs culverts siphons and pumps can be included A simple rainfall runoff relation is part of the model made where International Institute for Hydraulic and Environment Engineering Delft Rijkswaterstaat Tidal Waters Division The Hague Delft University of Technology Distribution ICIM P O Box 5809
28. bank and 4 right bank canals for scour sedimentation requirements and for downstream releases at Sukkur Barrage on the Lower Indus river Pakistan The aim is to keep head pond levels steady at given upstream flows by setting barrage gate heights and canal headwork regulator openings It operates for different seasons setting irrigation requirements and at various levels of complexity Maximum 20 daily steps are made It writes the performance of the player to the disk made where Sir M MacDonald amp Partners Demeter House Cambridge UK for the Government of Sind Karachi under assignment of the Overseas Development Administration Year of release is 1987 Price at the end of 1987 GBP 100 what available A 3 5 disk with the EGA version manual MacDonald 1987 The Sukkur barrage game MacDonald Software Sir M MacDonald amp Partners Cambridge UK 10 pp Ede P F amp P D S Gunn 1987 Computer aided management of Sukkur Barrage Pakistan Proceedings BHS National symposium Hull Univ 33 1 33 5 Dempster J 1 M S L Marsden amp I K Smout 1989 Computer simulations in games for training irrigation management Irr amp Drain Systems 3 265 280 Stoner R F J I M Dempster amp S L Marsden 1989 The use of simulation models in the management of irrigation systems In Rydzewski amp Ward Irrigation theory and practice Pentech Press London UK 901 910 _ what required i
29. basic programs as they are conversions via gwbasic are then required Program runs properly after starting gwbasic and loading and running SUBDRAIN BAS The program clearly dates iom the early days of the microcomputer see also hardware and software requirements judging by the graphics The water table depth calculations take considerable time depending on the accuracy required 12 90 minutes relatively simple and rather dated program which may have some appheanoni in elementary raming or demonstration FORMS 152 Program 38 SUKdemo what it does Demonstrates three small computer programs i e Indus Allocations Program IAP Sukkur Barrage Game SBG and Pump Test Program PTP IAP is an interactive training model which allocates river flows to the 14 canals fed at the 3 barrages on the Lower Indus Pakistan SBG simulates the operation of the largest Barrage Sukkur Barrage of the same river using barrage gate openings and canal headwork settings PTP should plot groundwater drawdowns but the demo program on our disk aborts prematurely made where Sir M MacDonald amp Partners Demeter House Cambridge UK IAP and SBG were made for the Government of Sind Province Karachi for Overseas Development Administration and PTP by Groundwater Development Consultants Cambridge UK Year of manufacture 1986 what available A 3 5 disk with the demonstration programs for EGA and for HERC
30. complete with 2 pages abbreviated printed results The program relies heavily on I amp D papers 24 and 33 The use of the Curve Number method for infiltration amp runoff determination seems rather crude Using a linear unsaturated function K theta is also a gross simplification There is some doubt about the of reduced ratios for different crop stages The screen messages and questions are relatively simply laid out there are no menus and no graphics and no choices to point to merely questions to answer with letters or figures Y N 1 2 3 File handling is rather neat and data input is old fashioned but iS in a guided way in special organised modules GENFARMF GENRFILE and CRPSOLDT FORMS 150 Program 36 SRFR what it does The program is meant to analyze a particular surface irrigation event by calculating the longitudinal distribution of infiltrated depth and the volume of runoff The irrigation event is characterized by entering values for the relevant input parameters which can vary widely infiltration bottom slope and roughness may be varied over the field length inflow can be constant as surges or as a hydrograph etc For small medium sloped the zero inertia approach is used for higher slopes the kinematic wave approach is the default made where Theodor Strelkoff USDA ARS US Water Conservation Laboratory 4331 East Broadway Phoen
31. d evapotranspiration seepage irrigation rainfall drainage etc A yield ratio for drought conditions actual potential is calculated following a Wickham model as the main performance indicator The program is a variant of SIMYIELD It uses daily evapotranspiration and rainfall records so as to avoid effective rainfall estimates Minimum and maximum water levels are specified made where The World Bank New Delhi India what available 3 5 disk with the SIMYIELD and RICEYLD source codes and EXE files plus additional files Narayanamurthy S G 1987 SIMULNDO sofware package for simulating crop performance under irrigation user s manual apparently pre cursor to and RICEYLD Narayanamurthy S G 1988 RICEYLD program for aa performance of rice crop under irrigation user s manual World Bank New Delhi what required IBM PC with MS DOS and an Epson FX or LX printer written in Basic gt remarks The program will runs faster in the EXE version A test run for one year with existing data files took about five minutes to complete with half a page abbreviated printed results The program relies heavily on a Wickham yield relation for m and wet season yields and on I amp D Paper 24 Crop water requirements special flooded rice situation makes the program simpler than SIMYIELD unsaturated zone No yield reductions due to high water levels submergence are c
32. d applied but no specific info on WASAM itself Van Vilsteren A 1987 Users oriented irrigation development in Thailand In Hydraulics Research 1987 Irrigation design for management Asian regional symposium Kandy Sri Lanka 16 18 Feb 1987 70 96 what required not specified written in Basic remarks The AUTOEXEC on the program disk does not work because of the Basic version HBasic using the normal Compaq Basic of the test machine is OK The collection of 51 files are lacking an overall structure like a main menu is missing The Basic programs refer to data files on disk B which is slightly problematic on a one FDD machine Even though the individual Basic programs can be listed and read it is not easy to evaluate the whole array of files due to the missing main menu Although two locations are apparently using the package Kinda Irrigation Scheme Burma and Mae Klong Irrigation Projects Thailand it is difficult to judge how flexible the program is for other projects What could be inferred from the listings is that rudimentary graphics have been incorporated and that a workable program was created in several projects at the time 1987 but that a modernization database oriented menu driven a better graphics interface would be required before it could be issued for general use work on this is said to be in progress at Euroconsult Arnhem Program 45 WYEGAME what it
33. data and produces summaries The manual suggests that the BAS programs may be changed to fit local conditions This would be hard work program structure and logic are not clear at all no headings no spacing no self explanatory variable names etc There are three modes of play increasingly difficult takes quite some time for a trainer to get acquainted with the particulars of the game in such a way that he can answer all sorts of questions of participants Asan introductory exercise for participants to do something together and get to know each other it may not be a bad game but it will take at least a few weeks to get it properly shaped and tested The input sequence is not very clear the produced output was not clear consistent in our test run Needs thorough checking before the program can be utilized No graphics are used and there is no interaction 159 FORMS 160 ANNEX 2 161 ANNEX 2 ADDRESSES Addresses included in this Annex comprise Serial number BO T mI Note Organization AEI Canterbury New Zealand CADI Fort Collins USA CEMAGREF Montpellier France CIE Leuven Belgium Delft Hydraulics Delft The Netherlands Euroconsult Arnhem The Netherlands ICIM Rijswijk The Netherlands IAHL Velp The Netherlands IGWMC Delft The Netherlands IHE Delft The Netherlands IIS Southampton UK ILRI Wageningen The Netherlands Lisboa Universi
34. der ILRI Wageningen price for each of the programs on disk NLG 20 00 publ 29 NLG 40 00 what available A 3 5 floppy disk with SGMP1 and SGMP2 programs source codes and sample input data files Boonstra J amp N A de Ridder 1990 Numerical modelling of groundwater basins ILRI publ 29 2nd ed Wageningen A short SGMP2 manual stipulating the differences with Publ 29 Description of the two layered model what required compatible microcomputer under MS DOS written in Fortran IV SGMP1 and Fortran 77 SGMP2 remarks In SGMPI there are four parts 1 2 3a 3b to be run consecutively results come fast in four corresponding OUT files and two TRF files The structure of the SGMP2 package is the same with four parts 21 22 23 and 24 and there is a DOC file which is the text of the short SGMP2 manual mentioned above test input results come fast Printed and graphical results must be printed on a wide carriage printer 130 char The input and output is standard older inflexible Fortran dating from the punched card time as is Publ 29 no menu s no interaction no graphics except a plotted results file for a wide printer the program appearance looks outdated in 1992 The program requires a thorough understanding of the subject and the validity of the input data via Publ 29 before the input routines can be used and before results can be interpreted A
35. does The program is a training exercise in irrigation management in the form of a role playing game Participants are asked to play a farmer or an irrigation manager under the supervision of a game controller They must make decisions based on limited inputs which are then fed to the computer which calculates consequences Objectives are showing basic irrigation principles demonstrating interactions and promoting group discussion made where The Department of Agricultural Economics Wye College Univ of London Wye Ashford Kent TN25 SAH England Manual from Publications Department GBP 6 50 what available 3 5 disk with version 1 0 dated 25 07 88 with the Basic source code a short startup routine CONSOL BAT was added program has its own Basic version The manual Smith L E D amp Youngman J P 1988 The Wye College Irrigation Game version 1 0 25 July 1988 ADU Occasional paper 10 Dept Agric Economics Wye College 68 pp 11 refs Smith L E D 1989 The Wye College irrigation game Stop the breach Irr amp Drain Systems 3 255 264 what required An IBM PC XT computer with gt 128 kB RAM running under MS DOS A wide carriage Epson printer Sufficient copies of forms and information for participants gt written in Basic basic86 remarks E 9 The PC program is a not the game itself Participants discuss and decide the computer processes decisions
36. e Other inputs are border length slope roughness and downstream boundary condition blocked or draining Management parameters like required application depth inflow rate and cutoff time are also needed Resulting parameters are advance recession and runoff as functions of time plus the ultimate distribution of water The model runs under the zero inertia formulation or the kinematic wave model or a hybrid of the two made where Theodor Strelkoff for US Water Conservation Laboratory 4331 East Broadway Phoenix Ariz 85040 USA what available A 3 5 disk with an executable file BO7M EXE a data file and a README file version 7 2 of March 1987 The source codes in Fortran of the seven constituting files dated March 1987 version 7 2 The manual Strelkoff T 1985 BRDRFLW a mathematical model of border irrigation USDA ARS 29 Phoenix 104 pp what required IBM PC AT or 386 or compatible there is a version for machines with a math co processor then the executive file is BO7M7 EXE which we do not have A wide carriage printer had to be attached to the PC otherwise the program did not run even if README NOW was followed written in Fortran 77 remarks Start program by typing B07M after logging to a Example of handbook is printed till ZERO INERTIA on the Compaq Deskpro 386N it takes about 17 minutes before the rest of the output is produced Program is not user fr
37. e filled prior to running and tabulated output is given in four files made where Laboratory of Soil and Water Engineering Faculty of Agricultural Sciences Leuven Kardinaal Mercierlaan 92 b 3030 Leuven Belgium Cost USD 45 what available Information brochure 2 pages 3 5 diskette 720 kB with an EXE version of the manual Dierckx J Belmans amp Pauwels 1986 SWATRER a computer package for modelling the field water balance Lab of S amp W Engineering Leuven Belgium 114 pp Contains program listings what required IBM PC XT AT or fully compatible gt written in Fortran 77 remarks Filling in the input data is quite laborious and requires a thorough knowledge of soil climatic simulation and i o parameters program as presented appears a specific research tool Having filled in the input file the program starts by typing SWATRER and then silently works on Using the sample input file the program runs without any messages for almost 3 minutes on the Compaq Deskpro 386N on HDD and fills the four empty output files provided Difficult to judge without further reading how dated the program is at the moment seeing that it uses Ernst 1962 groundwater flow a Ritchie s 1972 evaporation model the SCS 1972 curve number method for run off a Hoogland 1981 root uptake model etc Itis not a program for quick learning and application partly because the va
38. e microcomputer with gt 640 kB RAM running under MS DOS 3 0 or higher A hard disk is preferred A line printer if printed results are required written in MS Fortran 5 0 remarks The installation procedures are simple and work correctly There is a clear main menu leading to one or two levels of sub menu s after which input data are requested on the top half of the screen and results are shown on the lower half of the screen File handling data entry and moving around the program clear and straightforward The manual is clear on program organization and gives some guidance as to which method to use but scientific background formulae used and coefficients selected are not mentioned but references are given Experience and judgement of the design engineer is required to select input values and to interpret the calculated output values Screen display is simple and contains numerical information once the method is selected available Help refers mainly to units and numerical limits An easy to use tool for designing alluvial channels appropriate to transported sediment load FORMS 128 Program 14 DRAINCAN what it does This spreadsheet is to be used in Lotus 1 2 3 and will calculate the water depth of a trapezoidal secondary drainage canal in cut with b 3 d side slope 1 1 5 and n 0 025 and bed levels using Manning s formula and compute the earthwork quantities using the ave
39. egional salinity model is attempted 147 Program 33 SATEM what it does This package contains Selected Aquifer Test Evaluation Methods which help in determining the hydraulic characteristics of water bearing layers from pumping tests a common phenomenon in studies of regional groundwater resources There are four sub programs i e JACOB HANTUSH PARTIAL and RESIDUAL corresponding with fully or partially penetrating wells and confined leaky or unconfined aquifers and whether or not residual drawdown data to be analyzed Diagnostic plots are shown on screen and the user can select a satisfactory match between data and theoretical model made where Dr J Boonstra ILRI P O Box 45 6700 AA Wageningen The Netherlands Price NLG 34 00 for publ 48 floppy what available A 3 5 floppy with SATEM version 1 3 Aug 1991 Boonstra J 1989 SATEM Selected Aquifer Test Evaluation Methods microcomputer program Publ 48 ILRI Wageningen The Netherlands Boonstra J 1992 Aquifer tests with partially penetrating wells theory and practice J Hydrol 137 165 179 what required IBM compatible microcomputer with Hercules card CGA or higher and a corresponding monitor A math co processor would speed up the calculations written in QuickBasic remarks The screens work OK in all four sub programs and the test data lead to fast results even without a co processo
40. ements the comparison of runs must still be done by looking at long tabulated data or by using other graphics packages Hydraulic basis should be OK The program does not stand alone you need the manual new version 3 0 has been made and is to be published in 1993 FORMS 134 Program 20 INCAdemo what it does The demonstration disk shows a number of subsequent screens that the Irrigation Network Control amp Analysis package is based on a generalized database in the demo for Kraseio Scheme in Thailand The database contains a o canal network data historic rainfall data info on soils cropping patterns canal water levels etc The program facilitates data management amp processing irrigation water management and performance monitoring Extensive use of graphics including map zooming visualizes information quickly and attractively made where HR Wallingford Ltd Wallingford Oxfordshire OX10 8BA UK Contact John Skutsch Available at around GBP 3000 what available A 3 5 demonstration disk which is 770 kB in size including zipped INCA files unzipped size 220 kB There is a batch file for installation on c incdem what required For the demo 2 5 MB should be available on the hard disk and a VGA colour screen is required VGA mono will do For the real program WINDOWS v 3 1 is required and an SQL routine licence GBP 150 An IBM 80386 machine is required with 4 Mb RAM and a
41. en Standard Fortran 77 gt remarks SWADAT INP is the general data input file which also allows the user to specify the names of 3 output files e g OUTPUT OUT PROFIL OUT and CROP OUT BALANCE WB and BALANCE SOL will be made automatically Typing swacrop at the DOS prompt first results is nothing for a while but then a time bar appears to show the simulation progress the test run lasted about 15 minutes without a math co processor input file is typical for the inflexible Fortran format used at the time of ued cards there is no interactive input screen The output consists of long lists of figures which must be plotted viewed and interpreted by hand or with other packages the BALANCE package is available for that purpose Only potatoes appear as a crop in our version this hampers the wider applicability m Do FORMS 156 Program 42 SWATRER what it does Simulates the actual water use of a field crop through calculating the various terms of the soil water balance the main feature being the solution of the unsaturated soil moisture flow equation using an implicit finite difference technique with an explicit linearization The original program SWATR Soil Water and Actual Transpiration Rate by Feddes et al 1978 was extended E to SWATRE by Belmans et al 1983 and in now revised R to SWATRER 1986 The program uses daily climatological values An input table must b
42. entioned remarks Demo starts with typing DEMO The general text and slides of the four main functions give a good impression of the program s possibilities Graphics shown are indeed of good quality Application and data shown are for the 12000 ha Cidurian Irrigation Scheme Indonesia mainly for the overall network which includes river diversion and a hydropower dam The smallest irrigation unit is a tertiary unit The operation part includes the organizational setup pengamats mantris and gatekeepers and deals with monitoring information and new gate settings on a half monthly basis It is difficult to judge from the demo how site specific the program is It would be useful to establish how the actual OMIS would perform under other conditions in other places The set up looks promising The OMIS program is basically an allocation program taking account of crop data climatic data and soil data in various portions of a scheme on a half monthly basis It can also handle current information for monitoring FORMS 140 Program 26 OPTIPIPE what it does The program calculates the most cost effective pressurized irrigation water distribution system considering pipe diameters only It is meant as a practical tools for irrigation engineers to assist them in designing a branching pipe network made where FAO AGLW Service Land and Water Development Division Via Terme di Caracalla 00100 Rome
43. er received from FAO Walker 1989 Guidelines for designing and evaluating surface irrigation systems Irrigation amp Drainage Paper 45 FAO Rome Italy 137 pp mentioning the availability of the disk in Appendix 1 on p 137 especially chapter 5 Surface irrigation design seems applicable what required 256 kB RAM gt written in Fortran 77 remarks There is no example or case study data file on the disk the program only allows to fill an empty data input format and save it A first trial run with basin data provoked an error and the program had to be aborted upon changing the input data as best as possible according to chapter 5 6 1 of FAO 45 file BAS561 DAT there was a run of output over the screen ending in tabulated data of basin width unit flow advance and cutoff time and application efficiency The above shows the lack of a manual although this should not be needed it is not clear which design parameters the program calculates as most of them basin width basin length etc have to be entered NB zero slope is apparently not acceptable for basins There is a reference to SURMOD as in FISDEV by the same author available from USU at USD 150 00 15 00 The three flow regimes for furrows Normal Cutback Reuse are the same as in FISDEV Sample printed output was not tested ANNEX 1 E 155 Program 41 SWACROP what it does The program simulates
44. ere is no score or What did I do right or wrong It is not immediately clear what the other files except GWBASIC EXE and IR1 BAS which produce IRRIGAME are meant for The purpose of the game is not clear there is no manual or any other documentation to assist We may not have tested the most recent version FORMS 136 Program 22 IRSIS what it does The IRrigation Scheduling Information System package addresses irrigation scheduling at field level For a given climate crop and soil it offers possibilities to calculate net irrigation requirements or optimum water distribution under limited water supply to plan irrigation schedules to evaluate past irrigation schedules and to plan irrigation actions Consequences of irrigation schedules are shown in terms of water use efficiency and crop yield depressions It employs interactive data processing and calculations using hierarchically structured displays or screens made where Center for Irrigation Engineering Laboratory of Land Management Faculty of Agricultural Sciences Kardinaal Mercierlaan 92 b 3030 Leuven Belgium Available at USD 75 00 what available A 3 5 disk with IRSIS version 4 01 in EXE form with drivers displays and a database Raes D H Lemmens P van Aelst M vanden Bulcke amp M Smith 1988 IRSIS irrigation scheduling information system vol 1 Manual 199 pp and vol 2 Displays 71 pp Lab of L
45. es simple additions showing the effect of different planting dates on irrigation water requirements It is a simple spreadsheet suitable for introducing students to the usefulness of spreadsheets for irrigation calculations rather than for general issue or use in irrigation project design Manual has a few small errors e g page 10 The spreadsheet can be printed in three sections Plots of crop water requirements versus time can be printed with Lotus PrintGraph menu ANNEX 1 127 Program 13 DORC what it does The software package contains a number of routines which help in the Design Of Regime Canals i e canals with a stable profile as far as sedimentation and scour is concerned Apart from a range of design methods for alluvial unlined canals procedures for predicting alluvial friction and sediment transport are provided Methods for predicting the transporting capacity of sediments in the cohesive size range are also included The package includes regime methods tractive force rational methods Manning alluvial friction predictors and sediment transport for sand and silt made where Overseas Development Unit HR Wallingford Wallingford OX10 8BA England what available 3 5 disk with version 1 1 dated 1992 as an EXE file complete with installation files and a startup routine DORC BAT A draft User manual March 1992 55 pp what required An IBM compatibl
46. f W R Walker Utah State University Logan Utah 84322 4105 USA Producers of BCW RBC CANDI CANAL CATCH3D CROPWAT CRPSM GATEDPIP HYSYM IRRIGAME CSS IRRiSKED IRRITALK IRRITURNS LANDLEV LEVLGRAM MULTILAP NETDES PCET REF ET SPRNKSIM STEADY SURFACE SURMOD UCA _ UTAHET WATROP Mec A ee ADDRESSES 168 25 US Water Conservation Laboratory Dr A J Clemmens 4331 E Broadway Rd Phoenix AZ 85040 USA Producers of BASIN BRDRFLW SRFR 26 The World Bank Water Supply and Urban Development Department 1318 H Street N W Washington DC 20433 USA Producers of UNDP programs BRANCH FLOW HEADLOSSLOOP LINPROG NELDER REGRESS SEWER SCREEN In New Delhi RICEYLD SIMYIELD SIMULNDO 27 Wye College Mr L E D Smith University of London Ashford Kent TN25 SAH United Kingdom Producers of WYE COLLEGE IRRIGATION GAME fcc INDEX INDEX OF PROGRAM NAMES AUGER BALANCE BASCAD BASIN BCW BCWEIR BICAD BICADAM BILANREG BRANCH BRDRFLW CAMSIS CANAL CANALCAD CANALDES CATCH3D CARIMA CBW CHANNEL CID CIMIS CLIMWAT COBRA CRIWAR CROPF CROPR CROPW CROPWAT CRWTABLE DACSE DEFICIT DORC DRAINCAD DRAINCAN DRAINET DRAINMOD DRIPSPRI DUFLOW 169 8
47. gs like AutoCAD compare DRAINCAD which has such graphics The mathematics of the model are not explained in manual adding such a brief section would be useful for many training institutions and would instill more trust than the mentioned black box operation Previous versions had some additional drawbacks but are no longer sold Pull down menu s graphics of advance time and infiltrated depth and the storage possibilities for the output e g as a track record are present in the 1992 update version 2 0 FORMS 116 Program 2 BASIN what it does Determines design variables in level basin irrigation using one design screen showing the variables involved and the unknown calculated Infiltration roughness and the design question have to be specified before the program is run Then the units are specified and an output is chosen made where USDA ARS US Water Conservation Laboratory 4331 East Broadway Phoenix Arizona 85040 USA what available A copy of the program on a 3 5 diskette containing 14 files the most recent one of September 1990 but the program has not been formally released A user s manual is apparently in preparation what required not stated written in Turbo Pascal although a BAS file indicating Basic and a FOR file indicating Fortran are present on our diskette remarks No information is provided on the screen on program structure and program logic or o
48. he monochrome VGA screen there were no problems on the Portadesk The manuals are clear on starting and running procedures and give sufficient guidance for trying out individually The graphics for the maps have a somewhat rudimentary appearance nowadays The quality of many slides is not consistent with the rest of the game As with most irrigation games the group experience seems to be more important than any factual instruction FORMS 144 Program 30 REUSE gt what it does The model simulates water and salt balances in a series of consecutive schemes in a river basin under different climatic precipitation and evapotranspiration and water management conditions The latter can vary with respect to irrigation efficiencies reuse of drainage water quantity and salinity of water supply to the basin etc It is a simple mass balance parametric model Three types of variables need to be specified general river and scheme variables Output is per sub period or per period and relates to scheme or basin made where Euroconsult P O Box 441 6800 AK Arnhem Delft University of Technology P O Box 5048 2600 GA Delft ILRI P O Box 45 6700 AA Wageningen Limited availability what available A 3 5 diskette with REUSE EXE INPUT DAT and OUTPUT LIS Hoogenboom P J L K Smedema amp W Wolters s a Manual of REUSE Arnhem Delft Wageningen Smedema L K W Wolters amp P J Ho
49. ia what available 3 5 disk with a version dated September 1992 The manual Parrida B P amp W C Bell 1991 Manual on computer aided design of broad crested weir flume Techn Rep 52 Water Res Man amp Training Project LBII WAPCOS New Delhi Wiser E H amp A B Pattanaik 1992 Supplement to Technical Report no 52 Water Res Man amp Training Project LBII WAPCOS New Delhi what required An IBM PC XT computer with gt 640 kB RAM running under MS DOS 3 x Monochrome or colour monitor One serial and one parallel port written in Basic remarks Typing bcw starts the program and shows a logo screen The program is menu driven and mnemonics can be used A new weir can be designed or a rating curve made for an existing weir Simple graphics and lettering are used but work alright Program choices and structure look logical Manning formula solutions are also available in the package mainly intended for testing the tailwater depth The worked example in the Supplement to the manual is useful The latest version is only available as compiled file there is a source code listing of the former version in Technical Report no 52 Program seems to work properly and may be useful without being sophisticated FORMS 118 Program 4 BCW RBC what it does The program produces stage discharge ratings for broad crested weirs and is used for design and calib
50. iendly you need to read most of the manual to know what to do to run the program the input output arrangement is typically Fortran and hence inflexible Manual is quite elaborate on theoretical background of the zero inertia and kinematic wave approaches Long processing time is a drawback although a math co processor would help then B07M7 EXE required which we do not have Program is now virtually obsolete since its successor SRFR has taken over 1991 which can do more than only borders also basins furrows for more conditions _ANNEX 1 121 Program 7 CANAL what it does This hydraulic model simulates unsteady flow conditions in canal systems that branch out like a tree with the canals having a trapezoidal cross section In the test version there is a maximum of four branches at nine reaches each Reaches are separated by control structures and each reach can have up to nine turnouts There are three operation modes i e i interactive user specified control structure operation ii pre set control structures and iii operational supply setting through automatic gate scheduling There are extensive graphical screen displays of flow profiles and other situations while tabular numerical information is also available made where By F N Gichuki the Fortran version and G P Merkley the Pascal version Dept of Agric amp Irrigation Engineering Utah State University Logan UT 8432
51. ilar programs as yet Practical applicability of irrigation scheduling and scheme water supply sections difficult to evaluate certainly useful for training Program runs correctly and menu switching is alright Addition of graphics would enhance scheduling section CLIMWAT meteorological data set not tested not yet received from FAO FORMS 126 Program 12 CWRTABLE what it does This spreadsheet allows up to five different cropping patterns to be specified for a total of 52 periods e g weeks to make one year Water requirements are then calculated from input data such as reference Svapolranspistion and crop factors which are thus not t calculated by the spreadsheet made where M A Burton at the Institute of Irrigation Studies The University Southampton SO9 5NH UK Limited availability gt what available A 3 5 disk with three IIS spreadsheet programs among which CWRTABLE version 1 0 A 15 page manual Spreadsheet program nr 1 Cropping pattern crop water requirements IIS Southampton Nov 1987 what required IBM PC with 384 kB memory with colour or Mono screen MS DOS 2 1 or higher Lotus 1 2 3 package written in Lotus 1 2 3 v remarks After calling Lotus 1 2 3 type FR and at the prompt type A AACRWTABLEL to obtain either the empty spreadsheet CWRTABO or the filled in example CWRTABI The main input ETo has to come from somewhere else It do
52. imilarly output can be to the screen or to output files in tabulated form made where USDA Agricultural Research Service US Water Conservation Laboratory 4331 East Broadway Phoenix Ariz 85040 USA Contact A J Clemmens what available 3 5 disk with FLM24 EXE file 90 kB source code in Fortran a README and some data files Manual Clemmens A J J A Repogle amp Bos 1987 FLUME a computer model for estimating flow through long throated measuring flumes US Dep of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service ARS 57 68 p Literature e g Bos M G J A Repogle amp A J Clemmens 1984 Flow measuring flumes for open channel systems Wiley New York what required Not stated IBM PC XT or AT or 386 with or without a math co processor written in Fortran IV remarks Program starts by logging to a and typing FLM24 Input data e g of example flume 7 can be either read from data file or typed in from keyboard If typed in from keyboard data appear almost immediately on screen and if chosen in output files No plotting or graphics facilities provided other plotting programs may import data from output files Program does calibration and analysis NOT design Manual is quite useful for help in choosing inputs pages 8 13 extensive examples are given theory provided pages 34 57 Program shows older Fortran problems with inflexible input output arrang
53. ix Arizona 85040 USA what available 3 5 diskette containing 16 files 651 kB which is version 20 of January 1991 source code not available The manual called SRFR a computer program for simulating flow in surface irrigation furrows basins borders WCL report 4 17 US Water Cons Lab Phoenix by Theodor Strelkoff 69 pp what required IBM AT or 386 with a minimum of 540 kB free memory CGA monochrome or EGA colour screen a math co processor is strongly recommended as it cuts calculation times to about 1 10th Disk space is required for the files the program makes during execution written in Fortran 77 remarks Several settings are required before a run can start this is mainly achieved by going through a SRFRPREP program the entries from which are explained in quite some detail in the manual The sample input in SRFR DAT takes about 18 minutes on the Compaq 386N without co processor to complete 14 extra files are made some empty The SRFRPLOT aborts because QPHERC encounters an illegal function call in line 541 in the CGA version CGA or EGA have to be copied by the user into WS2 INI and LABELW TEM a new version is said to avoid this problem No runs with own data e g comparison with BASCAD made The program shows the pre occupation of the researcher with the physical and mathematical theory and the typical lack of user friendliness nowadays standard in computer package
54. lidity of the assumptions cannot be readily assessed by others than mathematical soil physicists 157 Program 43 UNDP what it does This is a set of 10 small programs made for a water supply and sanitation project The programs include BRANCH for calculating the cheapest branched pipe network LOOP for calculating velocities and head losses in a looped network SEWER for calculating the best gravity sewer network FLOW for simulating flows in large looping networks SCREEN for financial screening of water supply projects REGRESS for doing multiple linear regressions LINPROG for carrying out linear optimizations NELDER for non linear programming HEADLOSS for calculating head losses with the Hazen Williams equation and MINTREE for finding the shortest path connecting the nodes in a primary branched network of a looped system made where Mostly at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Raleigh NC USA what available Three 5 25 diskettes with 8 programs REGRESS and SEWER are missing 8 programs in executable version have been copied onto one 3 5 disk The manuals for all ten small programs which include a listing of the source code what required IBM PC or compatible machines 256 kB RAM minimum one floppy disk drive A monochrome or colour monitor and a parallel printer PC DOS 1 0 and above Resident
55. n there are nicer programs available which do the same e g CID ANNEX 1 129 Program 15 DRAINMOD what it does Based on the water balance in a soil profile DRAINMOD uses climatological records to simulate the performance of drainage and water table control systems for shallow water table soils Approximate methods are used to quantify hydrologic components like subsurface drainage subirrigation infiltration evapotranspiration and surface run off The model assumes an equilibrium soil water distribution above the water table Hourly precipitation and daily temperatures are input and daily monthly or annual summaries can be output of many drainage aspects made where Prof Dr R Wayne Skaggs Biological and Agricultural Engineering Deseraent Box 7625 N C State University Raleigh NC 27695 USA what available PC version 4 6 dated April 1992 DRAINMOD User s manual edited by S R Workman R W Skaggs J E Parsons J Rice 1990 North Carolina State University Raleigh 95 pp R W Skaggs 1980 Drainmod reference report USDA SCS Fort Worth what required A hard disk with 1 MB free space DOS 3 0 or higher minimum 320 kB RAM minimum graphics 640 200 CGA A math co processor is recommended Files 20 in CONFIG SYS EDLIN to be in the path gt written in There are Basic and Fortran versions we have a Fortran version the DMSHELL is in QuickBasic 4 0 remarks Install
56. n operating sequence Apparently pull down menu s are to be followed from left to right changed values entered are not seen until calculations are made The system may stall completely re start if an out of range value is entered the user must therefore be sure to enter acceptable values By selecting Execution Calculation a view of an output file may be obtained although this may not be immediately clear Program seems to be made to do the same as BASCAD except by using pull down menu s the pull down efforts need to be improved considerably ought to be fool proof Program seems to focus on finding maximum length of run Program needs thorough polishing to alleviate the above problems 117 Program 3 BCWEIR what it does This program assists the designer in the design of broad crested weir BCWEIR flumes and produces rating curves for given channel dimensions It uses theory developed by Repogle and others and has four main features i initial data leading to an initial sill height ii a re run with new sill height and length iii running the rating table from design values or known dimensions and iv printing summary design and rating tables The latest version adds more profile shapes and some computer graphics made where Water amp Power Consultancy Services India Ltd and Louis Berger International Inc 213 Ansal Chambers II 6 Bhikaji Cama Place R K Puram New Delhi 110066 Ind
57. nsen Burman amp Allen 1991 more useful info given there Programs have the typical Fortran input chart which was OK in 1986 but which looks rather dated now Manual appears is quite elaborate repeating tables from I amp D 24 and adding others Climatological data input sometimes flexible humidity 4 possible um sometimes not wind speed m s only No sample climatological data file provided on disk only one month for Jaca Spain in manual file 4001 is not provided Same goes for other examples in manual only blank files are provides for a sample run they must be filled first Suggestion that daily ETREF values are useful is implied is highly questionable FORMS 132 Program 18 FISDEV what it does The program is a tool for the design and evaluation of furrow irrigation systems based on current surface irrigation theory It distinguishes three types of systems i e with fixed inflow with cut back and with tailwater re use which can be treated separately or in comparisons Four calculation modes allow to solve for inflow rate furrow length application time and minimum infiltrated depth made where Center for Irrigation Engineering Vital Decosterstraat 102 3000 Leuven Belgium what available copy of the program 45 files on a 3 5 disk it is a preliminary version of April 1992 to become version 1 0 of the draft Manual Zerihun amp
58. ogenboom 1992 Reuse simulation in irrigated river basin J Irr Dr Eng 118 6 841 851 what required not stated written in Turbo Pascal 4 0 remarks Input file lay out needs to be exactly followed no interactive data input batch processing Sample run with INPUT DAT works OK and takes approximately 3 minutes on our test machine Printing the output file would be best on a wide carriage printer An extra TMP file made during execution is to be deleted manually afterwards There is a counter during simulation useful for the insecure or impatient user Abbreviations used in the output file are in the manual No iterations performed possibly in a future version Model is relatively simple with a number of simplifying assumptions and with some slightly dated relationships Testing is said to have been done in arid Egypt Fayoum and semi arid Pakistan conditions with satisfactory results The model is clearly structured and the manual is concise and clear it could be a useful educational program and a general planning tool if tested and refined further wider application the user friendliness could be improved 145 Program 31 RICEYLD what it does The program simulates yield performance of a number of plots under various irrigation schedules and policy alternatives Its core is a simple water balance for a rice field for which the various terms are estimate
59. op data It also allows the development of irrigation schedules for different management conditions and produces scheme water supply data for varying cropping patterns made where Land and Water Development Division Food and Agriculture Organization Via Terme di Caracalla 00100 Rome Italy M Smith what available Version 5 3 from Oct 1988 the 5 BAS files were hidden on the 5 25 disk in total 64 files FAO 1988 Manual for CROPWAT version 5 2 May 1988 FAO Rome 45 pp FAO 1988 Guidelines for using CROPWAT India National Water Management Project Workshop Walamtari 9 13 May 1988 55 pp Smith M 1992 CROPWAT A computer program for irrigation planning and management disk with v 5 7 Irr amp Drain Paper 46 FAO Rome Italy what painted IBM PC XT or AT or compatible with a minimum of 360 kB RAM The used version 5 7 has a size of about 703 kB in 238 user files For direct start up from the HD 5 25 disk in I amp D Paper 46 MS DOS 3 2 or higher is needed written in Basic remarks Start from disk type CROPWAT or install on hard disk first using INSTALLH There are 3 data directories CLIMATE with PEN and CLI files CROPS with CRO files and FIELDS with SOL and FLD files check printer setting and proper paths first Manual is sometimes needed to explain screen choices Accuracy of ET calculations difficult to evaluate no data with other sim
60. ovement P O Box 45 in co operation with Institute for Land and Water Management Research P O Box 35 6700 AA Wageningen The Netherlands what available A 3 5 disk with 3 EXE files and a TXT directory containing 103 text files with Screen messages dating from 1988 Total size 345 kB what required PC XT will do second drive if size 5 25 XT for output written in Fortran remarks Was supposed to be ILRI publication 46 but was never published Based on Doorenbos amp Pruitt 1977 modified Penman equation Loading the program after the initial 3 screens takes long without a message Meteorological data input is in fixed units temperature in degrees C rain in mm wind in m s etc not flexible like e g L amp W PENMAN Prompting for the date and for input data choices etc now appears outdated program originally dates from 1986 Most incorrect entries indeed produce a warning There is no manual but it is not needed to run the program Usefulness now expired with more versatile programs like CROPWAT IRSIS and similar programs on the market A few minor improvements have been made in a 1991 version but these do not change the remarks made above ANNEX 1 125 Program 11 CROPWAT what it does The program calculates crop water requirements from climatic data using the Penman Monteith approach and subsequent irrigation requirements using cr
61. ow supported by USU a new version with variable computation time steps now 5 min would be available at the end of 1992 A math co processor is needed to produce reasonable run times FORMS 122 Program 8 CATCH3D what it does This is a sprinkler overlap program which simulates the water application uniformities of rectangular sprinkler patterns by overlapping catch can measurements from a single sprinkler test of from a lateral line test The catch can grid must be square and only patterns that are multiples of the catch can grid can be evaluated Resulting calculated values include uniformity coefficient distribution uniformity application efficiencies of the low half and the low quarter and catch can efficiencies Overlapping patterns can be shown and plotted graphically made where Dr R G Allen Dept of Agricultural and Irrigation Engineering Utah State University Logan UT 84322 4105 copyrighted Available at USD 39 00 15 00 what available A 3 5 disk with DOC BAS and EXE files for CATCH3D and for the derived 3 dimensional plotting program 3D by the same author a number of data files DAT are present for demonstration we have version 3 3 of 1988 No manual is present but the documentation in the DOC files should suffice what required IBM PC XT or AT under MS DOS with CGA or EGA screen written in Basic remarks Program works OK with test data C
62. put not difficult calculations seem to work OK The graphics are generally reasonable but sometimes poor e g printed length profile from NESTUD A major drawback for wider use at present is that everything is written in Dutch 139 Program 25 OMISdemo what it does The demonstration disk mentions that OMIS Operation and Management of Irrigation Systems allows the user to plan a cropping pattern process monitoring data prepare half monthly operation schedules and simulate alternative operations The demo stresses the integrated structure of the program its fast data processing its flexibility and its user friendliness menu driven graphic displays made where Delft Hydraulics Division Water Resources and Environment P O Box 177 2600 MH Delft The Netherlands for DHV Consultants Amersfoort OMIS itself costs over NLG 10 000 what available Demo disk with 44 files approx 716 kB Relevant publication Verhaeghe R J amp W N M van der Krogt 1990 Modelling of irrigation water management Delft Hydraulics publication no 447 Dec 1990 what required For the demo an IBM AT is required with an EGA card and colour screen Monochrome screen gives good idea but maps are not 100 It says that the OMIS program itself needs an IBM AT with a math co processor an EGA card a colour screen a hard disk with gt 10 MB storage and an Epson compatible printer written in not m
63. r There are two additional small programs for assistance INPUT helps to make input files and with SCAL theoretical single well and aquifer test data can be made Manual is suitable mix of theoretical background and program user notes limitations are clearly stated program is a nice relatively small tool for a clearly defined job and leaves sufficient room for personal interpretation and judgement Program should be judged in combination with Kruseman amp De Ridder s Analysis and Evaluation of Pumping Test Data ILRI publ 47 Relevance for irrigation or drainage limited to research for tubewells or boreholes groundwater pumping or vertical drainage useful and modern enough tool FORMS 148 Program 34 SGMP what it does The model can be used to predict the effect of new irrigation schemes new patterns and rates of groundwater abstraction and artificial recharge of the groundwater basin for any desired length of time It can be applied to a confined semi confined and an unconfined aquifer but not to multi aquifer systems The model is devised for saturated laminar flow It applies mainly the Gauss Seidel iterative method to solve the finite difference equations but the Gauss Jordan elimination method can also be chosen Plots of water table elevations can be made on screen SGMP1 applies to single aquifers SGMP2 to two layered systems made where J Boonstra amp N A de Rid
64. rage end area method for a maximum of 20 sections The main aim however is educational to show spreadsheet programmers how to set up structure and document a spreadsheet program for a familiar irrigation drainage problem made where Robert Truncie an M Sc student in Irrigation Engineering at the Institute of Irrigation Studies The University Southampton SO9 5NH UK what available 3 5 disk with two more IIS spreadsheet programs and DRAINCAN version 1 0 of 1987 41 Manual extracted from the M Sc thesis of R Truncie i e Appendix C and Chapter 7 what required IBM PC XT or AT Epson FX 1000 printer using 14 paper Lotus 1 2 3 release 2 or higher written in Lotus 1 2 3 gt remarks After invoking Lotus 1 2 3 type FR and a draincan to have a choice of an empty spreadsheet DRAIN WK1 or a filled in one SAMPLE WK1 After the logo and two documentation screens a separate menu was created Table View Save Access Quit above the spreadsheet for Creating or Updating the Table for Viewing the longitudinal section of the drainage canal for Saving printing the table or graph for Accessing the spreadsheet construction and for Quitting Lotus This program and the manual indeed show more about spreadsheet construction in Lotus 1 2 3 than about calculating canal dimensions and earthwork volumes The graphics of Lotus 1 2 3 release 2 are indeed rather rudimentary View optio
65. ration of broad crested weirs for open channel discharge measurement The program is interactive with a built in data editor Results can be sent to a disk file or directly to a printer The English language version is called BCW there is also a Spanish version called RBC made where Software Engineering Division Biological and Irrigation Engineering Utah State University Logan Utah 84322 4105 USA Available from USU at USD 20 00 plus shipping and handling what available 3 5 disk with a version 2 2 dated May 1991 file BCW EXE There is no manual For literature see Bos M G J A Repogle amp J A Clemmens 1984 Flow measuring flumes for open channel systems Wiley New York what required An IBM PC or PS 2 compatible computer with gt 256 kB RAM running under MS DOS 3 30 or higher No special graphics or colour card required A printer is required for hardcopy output written in Not stated gt remarks The program starts by typing bcw There is a short Help available on screen for each of the 8 menu options Only trapezoidal cross sections can be handled with rectangular and triangular shapes as special cases thereof The program is fully text based there are no graphics Data entry is easy and computations are quick It looks as if BCWEIR can do more moreover FLUME seems to make this simple BCW program rather obsolete 119 Program 5 BICAD what it
66. s The use of Fortran the cumbersome input and the long list of output figures are indicators Work on a comfortable interface is in progress 151 dus 37 SUBDRAIN what it does The program uses colour graphics to assist the user in designing and simple subsurface drainage system consisting of one collector and evenly spaced lateral pipe drains on one or on two sides at any angle The program is especially meant for teaching and demonstrations Based on topographic features of an area it calculates the mainline configuration the spacing the depth and the diameters of the drains as well as water table heights and the total cost of the system gt made where Department of Agricultural Engineering Riley Robb Hall Cornell verity Ithaca NY 14853 USA Available via the Northeast Regional Agricultural Engineering Service at USD 30 00 what available 3 5 disk with the program version 2 5 copied from the original 5 25 disk The manual Bottcher R S T S Steenhuis amp M F Walter 1984 SUBDRAIN s manual Ithaca NY USA what required IBM XT with 64 kB RAM a colour monitor and board PC DOS 1 1 or 2 0 gt written in Basic remarks i The program was written in 1984 to run with basica but will also operate under Bwbasic but changes in the batch files are then required the qbasic coming with MS DOS 5 0 does not accept most
67. ties is available Version 2 0 was issued late in 1992 and contains a water quality module as well this version was not tested we used its precursor version 1 1 131 Program 17 ETREF what it does This is a package of four computer programs based on FAO s Crop water requirements publication I amp D paper 24 1977 containing ETREF calculating the potential evapo transpiration of a reference crop ETCROP multiplying ETref with a crop coefficient ETSPLIT calculating the potential evaporation and transpiration separately and DEFICIT calculating net irrigation requirements made where Center for Irrigation Engineering K U Leuven Kardinaal Mercierlaan 92 3030 Leuven Belgium Price is USD 45 what available Information brochure on this software package A 3 5 disk with the four programs in source code in an EXE version all with an input chart CHA copy of the manual Raes D P van Aelst amp Wyseure 1986 ETREF ETCROP ETSPLIT and DEFICIT a computer package for calculating crop water requirements Lab Soil amp Water Eng Leuven 104 pp what required IBM PC XT AT or fully compatible gt written in Fortran 77 remarks The ETREF ETCROP and DEFICIT programs are a logical sequence to arrive at irrigation project requirements ETREF and ETSPLIT are useful for a soil water balance model e g SWATRER Adjustment factor c for ETREF is discussed in Je
68. ting possibilities are provided The scoring is not completely clear made where Brian J Boman Utah State University and University of Florida USA based on earlier irrigation games by J Parrish amp L M Mulkay Available from Software Engineering Div Biol amp Irrig Eng Dept USU April 1992 at USD 35 00 shipping amp handling USD 8 00 in USA USD 15 00 abroad what available A 3 5 disk with 11 files in 182 kB including BASICA COM and GWBASIC EXE The IR BAT does not work on the Compaq There are 4 other DAT files two older Fortran files FOR and two Basic files BAS which seem to be the current ones References were seen to J Parrish 1982 and undated about an On farm management simulation game and about Irrigation simulation game development both from USU Logan what required Not specified Hercules 720 348 or IBM 640 200 CGA to be selected when prompted Apparently any IBM PC XT will be adequate written in Basic new programs Fortran the older ones remarks IR after logging to the a drive containing the floppy There are apparently climatic data available it is not clear where they are for which station and if they can be changed The provided information before being asked whether to irrigate or not is confusing the Depletion graph may not have been understood correctly 13 plotting menu choices at the end potentially nice but th
69. ts Requirements of the plan are specified in socio technical terms of e g improved water distribution and better farmer participation Important stages are System introduction Information Acquisition Preliminary design Final design and Evaluation The wider purpose is to create an interdisciplinary problem oriented learning experience for participants An Asian and an African version are available made where T S Steenhuis Dept of Agricultural amp Biological Engineering Cornell University Riley Robb Hall Ithaca NY 14853 5701 USA what available 3 5 disk with the 1986 versions and the slide sets Oaks R L E J vander Velde amp T S Steenhuis 1986 Irrigation REHAB User S manual WMS Rep 46 Ithaca Sikkens R R Johnson R L Oaks amp T s Steenhuis 1987 Irrigation REHAB Africa version User s manual WMS Rep 64 Ithaca what required An IBM compatible microcomputer with 256 kB RAM running under MS DOS 2 0 to 3 1 with or without a math co processor CGA or EGA or equivalent with colour monitor Relay Adapter Card for automatic access to slides v gt written in Not stated gt remarks The installation procedures are simple and work correctly There is a clear root menu leading to three sub menu s Environment Information Farmer with several options the Information Module is the most elaborate one We had start up difficulties on the Compaq probably due to t
70. ttempts are made to integrate this model with SALTMOD into a regional salinity model RSM at the same time updating the user interface 149 Program 35 SIMYIELD what it does The program simulates yield performance of a number of plots under various irrigation schedules arid policy alternatives Its core is a simple water balance for a layered top soil for which the various terms are estimated infiltration runoff evapotranspiration seepage rooting depth soil moisture flow etc A yield ratio actual potential is calculated as the main performance indicator The program draws heavily on FAO I amp D papers 24 and 33 Daily data are calculated using historical rainfall records so as to avoid effective rainfall estimates made where The World Bank New Delhi India gt what available A 3 5 disk with the SIMYIELD and RICEYLD source codes and EXE files n additional files Narayanamurthy S G 1987 SIMULNDO software package for simulating crop performance under irrigation user s manual apparently pre cursor to SIMYIELD and RICEYLD do 1988 SIMYIELD software package for simulating crop performance under irrigation user s manual World Bank New Delhi what required IBM PC with MS DOS and an Epson FX or LX printer written in Basic gt remarks The program will run faster in the EXE version A test run with existing 01 files took about ten minutes to
71. ty Portugal LBII WAPCOS New Delhi India LWDD FAO Rome Italy LUW TCT Wageningen The Netherlands Melbourne University Australia Mott MacDonald Cambridge UK NCSU Raleigh USA NRAES Ithaca NY USA ODU HR Wallingford UK Silsoe College Silsoe UK Staring Centre Wageningen The Netherlands USU Logan Utah USA USWCL Phoenix USA World Bank Washington USA Wye College Ashford UK The program names mentioned under a certain address may include programs not mentioned in this publication such names are printed in italics Programs appearing in Annex are in bold type ADDRESSES 162 01 Agricultural Engineering Institute Lincoln University Dr P John P O Box 84 Canterbury New Zealand Producers of IRRICAD SPRINKPAC TURFCAD 02 Computer Assisted Development Inc Dr T Sheng 1635 Blue Spruce Drive Suite 101 Fort Collins Colo 80524 USA Producers of MIS 03 CEMAGREF Groupement de Montpellier Contact Mr P O Malaterre B P 5095 34033 Montpellier Cedex 1 France Producers of BAHIA BEL BILANREG CANAL9 CERES DACCORD DEVER ICARE MECENE PB2DIAM RAIEOPT SIC SIDRA STAB TALWEG FLUVIA VERITAS XERXES RENFORS 04 Center for Irrigation Engineering Prof J Feyen Catholic University Vital Decosterstraat 102 3000 Leuven Belgium Producers of CANALCAD DEFICIT DRAINCAD ETREF ETCROP ETSPLIT FISDEV IRSIS P SCAD RAINBOW SU
72. user defined unknowns in the Manning Strickler formula for trapezoidal channels using a tabulated calculation sheet which can be written to a file for future reference The Newton Raphson iteration is used for unknown water depth bed width or side slope made where Delft University of Technology Faculty of Civil Engineering Sanitary Engineering amp Water management Section Irrigation P O Box 5048 2600 GA Delft The Netherlands what available A 3 5 disk with PROFILE EXE and a KSVALUES TXT file together some 112 kB version 1 0 dated July 1990 User s Manual Profile writen by H Hebermann amp W Schuurmans dated February 1991 13 pages what required No data on requirements are given Program will presumably run on IBM PC XT AT 386 or compatibles with a minimum of 256 kB memory written in not stated remarks Program starts after typing PROFILE The KSVALUES TXT file is too short and not geared towards earthen channels in field irrigation Ks values are high It can easily be replaced but better guidance is expected from a program like this i User manual is very explicit which is generally good The English in the manual and in the Help could be improved Future versions could include suggestions for b h choices to be made tabulated permissible flow velocities for various soil materials and other channel shapes The program makes files on the diskette for future reference if a S

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