About this User Guide
The Source User Guide provides information on operating Source, including specifying catchment geometry. selecting component models, generating river models and running a project and viewing results.To get started you can choose a topic of interest from the navigation panel on the left, or from the topic links below.
Also on this website you can find:
- An overview of the broad concepts underlying Source here
- Detailed information on SourceThe Source Scientific Reference Guide, which describes the theory behind the software
- Best practice modelling guidelines
Source modelling basics
Getting started and the Source user interface
Nodes
Links
Importing data
Running scenarios
Using the charting tool
Setting up a geographic model
Geographic Wizard for catchments
Rainfall runoff models
Constituents
Calibration tool for geographic scenarios
Handy tools and user options
Expression Editor
Command line runner
User preferences
Analysis tools
Plugins
Planning and operations functions
Ownership
Ordering
Borrow and payback systems, distribution systems
Resource assessment
Forecasting
Restriction curves (including trigger levels)
Enviro type applications
Groundwater interaction tool
Environmental demand model
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The authors and editors gratefully acknowledge contributions from: Australian Capital Territory Department of the Environment, Climate Change, Energy and Water; Bureau of Meteorology; Commonwealth Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts; Murray-Darling Basin Authority (incl MSM-Bigmod material); New South Wales Department of Water and Energy (incl IQQM material); Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management (incl IQQM material); Sinclair Knight Merz; South Australian Department of Water, Land and Biodiversity Conservation; University of Melbourne Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (incl NGenIRR crop modelling work); Victoria University (incl REALM material); Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment (incl REALM material); Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, CSIRO; Western Australian Department of Water.
The authors acknowledge this material is derived from the Source User Guide:
Delgado, P., Kelley, P., Murray, N., & Satheesh, A. 2013, Source User Guide, eWater Cooperative Research Centre, Canberra, Australia. ISBN 978-1-921543-71-5 (as at 3 January 2013 for Source v3.2.7 - make for last production release June 2012).