The only input file that the model needs is the daily climate file in .csv format (file name: InputClimate.csv). All remaining files are created through the GUI. The input climate file can be found in the folder ?C:\Program Files\Toolkit\CLASS\Class U3M\Project name?. Format of a sample climate file is shown in "Appendix A.1 ? Input data file" in the CLASS U3M-1D Users Guide 1.0.1.

• The model generates five output files which are described in "Appendix A.2 - Output data files" in the CLASS U3M-1D Users Guide 1.0.1.
• All the output files will be stored in the folder ?C:\Program Files\Toolkit\CLASS\Class U3M\Project name?.
• All output files are in ?.csv? format and therefore you can open them directly in Excel.
• The user can view the numerical values of the outputs by clicking on the data tab at the top of the GUI or you can view the same outputs as a plot by clicking on the plot tab.

Algorithms for the water balance component are detailed in the CRC for Catchment Hydrology Technical Report 04/12 by Tuteja et al., 2004 (available under 'Publications' below). The technical report has been peer reviewed by international and national experts in distributed hydrologic modelling. CLASS U3M-1D has been tested against the water balance computations from HYDRUS-2D (Simunek et al., 1999). These tests have been conducted for a 2.3m deep homogeneous as well as a 2.3m deep heterogenous soil profile. Both models were used with same climate and soils data and the evaporative demand was forced as potential plant transpiration. In the case of homogeneous soil profile, simulations were done for 183 days with no plant water stress in both models. The results on soil moisture variation for each 10cm layer across the soil profile, actual plant transpiration and leakage from the soil profile were within 0.5%. For the case of heterogeneous soil profile, simulations were done for daily climate data from 1975-2000 (26 years) and a soil profile from the Little River catchment (Macquarie River basin, New South Wales). Simulations were done with plant water stress in both models. Results on soil moisture within each of the four soil materials were within 0-2% and at the interface of the material were within 0-5%. These differences are largely due to differences in numerical architecture of the two models and plant water stress function implementation in the two models (soil moisture based plant water stress function in CLASS U3M-1D as against pressure based soil moisture stress function in HYDRUS). CLASS U3M-1D uses an explicit solution of the Richards? equation for water balance calculations. As the time step and the layer thickness are decreased, the implicit solution is approached. The default soil layer thickness value of 10cm is found to be optimum for speed as well as accuracy. A value smaller than 10cm is likely to increase the run time without any appreciable increase in the accuracy. A value greater than 20cm will affect the accuracy of the solution of the Richards? equation.