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GW_Chart version 1.30

June 26, 2020

GW_Chart is a program for creating specialized graphs used in groundwater studies. It incorporates the functionality of two previous programs, Budgeteer and Hydrograph Extractor and adds additional new features. There are seven major types of graphs created with GW_Chart:
Calibration Plots
Water Budget Plots
Hydrographs
Lake Plots
Piper Diagrams
Cell Water Budgets
Farm Budgets
It reads data from the following programs to create these plots:
ZONEBUDGET
MODFLOW
MOC3D
MODFLOW2000-GWT
SUTRA
MT3D
HST3D
UCODE-2005
OPR-PPR
GW_Chart can also convert cell-by-cell budget files or zeta file generated by MODFLOW to text files.
GW_Chart version 1.30 adds support for MODFLOW 6 for plots of the water budget, hydrographs, water budgets of individual cells and converting cell-by cell water budgets to text.

Publication Year 2020
Title GW_Chart version 1.30
DOI 10.5066/P9Y29U1H
Authors Richard B Winston
Product Type Software Release
Record Source USGS Digital Object Identifier Catalog
USGS Organization Water Resources Mission Area - Headquarters