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This document consists of five major parts: introductory materials, tutorial, reference guide, a guide to MODFLOW resources, and a glossary. The introductory materials include a description of what MODFLOW can and can't do, a license, registration information, a form for providing feedback and a description of the conventions used in this document. Part of what will determine how and whether this document is updated is the feedback I get so I encourage everyone to fill out the feedback form and submit it even users who have not yet registered. The other main factor will be whether enough people register. If hardly anyone registers, there clearly isn't much point in updating this document.
The tutorial includes advice on using word processors to edit MODFLOW input files, a description of those aspects of FORTRAN which are important in using MODFLOW and an overview of how to use MODFLOW. In the future, I plan to include step-by-step instructions on using MODFLOW with one or more a specific examples.
The reference guide is structured to maximize its usefulness to both beginning and advanced users. The description of each package begins with a bibliographic reference to the original documentation and an introduction to the package. The material on each web page comes primarily from the original documentation for the package in question but may also include material from other packages when those other packages are mentioned by name. Next comes a condensed description of the format of the input file for the package designed for advanced users. Hypertext links within those condensed descriptions lead to an expanded description that will be better for beginners or those who want a more detailed description. I have included examples in the for the utility modules but I have not yet prepared examples for the other packages. Hypertext links within the expanded descriptions lead to related topics.
Certain key terms are included in the glossary. I plan to expand this and create a combined glossary and index in the future which will include all the input variables in MODFLOW.
A set of example MODFLOW input files will be distributed with a future version of this document. (In some cases in may be useful to create your own input files by modifying the examples rather than by starting from scratch. If you do this, it would be a good idea to copy the files you modify to a different directory or folder and rename it before you begin work so that you will not destroy the original input file and so that your input file is not destroyed during an update of this document.)
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