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Theoretical drainage and salinity?  
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Eight articles (nr. 1,3,6,9,10,11,12,13) were officially published before, the other texts are new.

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1. Agricultural drainage criteria

                    This is a book chapter dealing with drainage systems, effects on agriculture, design criteria, water balances (budgets), drainage requirements, and examples in various agro-climatic zones.
The table of contents may be viewed here.

 

2. Data analysis in drainage research

                    This is a lecture note with examples of application of four software packages on this web site (CumFreq, SegReg, EnDrain and RainOff) and other analysis topics.
View table of contents here.

 

3. Energy balance of groundwater flow

                    This is copy of an article published earlier. It gives physical theory of groundwater hydraulics.
View abstract.

 

4. Application of the energy balance of groundwater flow to drains and ditches

                    This is an article giving the mathematical theory and examples of groundwater movement and seepage used in the EnDrain program (see Software on this website).
(view abstract)

 

5. Well spacing equations for subsurface drainage of agricultural land by pumped wells

                    This paper can be used as a manual of the WellDrain program (see Software page).
For information on well pumping tests for aquifer properties visit the same page.

 

6. Determining hydraulic conductivity of soils

                    This is a book chapter dealing with the determination of the saturated hydraulic conductivity or permeability of soils using small and large scale methods
The table of contents may be viewed here.

 

7. SaltMod manual

                    This manual gives a description of the Saltmod model (see Software page) for the leaching (flushing) of saline (salt affected) soils, including its principles, user menu, and case studies.
See table of contents

 

8. SaltMod application
                    This is a proceedings paper called: "SaltMod, a tool for the interweaving of irrigation and drainage for soil salinity control".
9. SahysMod manual

                    This manual gives a description of the SahysMod model (see Software page) including its principles, user menu, and case studies
SahysMod is a combination of Saltmod and a mathematical (numerical) groundwater model simulating flow and salinity in confined, unconfined and semiconfined (leaky) aquifers.
See table of contents

 

10. Effectiveness and social/environmental impacts of irrigation projects: a critical review
                    From: Annual Report 1988, p. 18-34. ILRI, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
 
11. Agricultural land drainage a wider application through caution and restraint

                    From: Annual Report 1991, p. 9 - 21. ILRI, Wageningen, The Netherlands
This article emphasizes environmentally wise use.

 

12. Frequency analysis in hydrology

                    This is a book chapter dealing with the cumulative frequency analysis of hydrologic phenomena including log-normal (lognormal) and Gumbel distributions giving confidence belts and discussing return periods (recurrence intervals).
The table of contents may be viewed here.

 

13. Regression analysis for water table, soil salinity plant growth and crop production

                    This is a book chapter dealing with the principles of linear regression analysis (least squares method) including confidence statements and segmented regression using a breakpoint.
The table of contents may be viewed here.

 

 
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