The Word file called readme.doc which is part of the installation
package hints on how to run the program.
System Requirements
Hardware: Standard IBM compatible PC with Windows.
Hard disk space needed for MACRO in FOCUS: program files and scenarios
= c. 10 MB, additional space for individual simulations: 1 MB per groundwater
simulation, 6 MB for surface water simulations.
Software: WIN9x, WIN NT operating systems
Installing MACRO
The Word file called readme.doc which is part of the installation
package hints on how to run the program.
Technical Support
The MACRO in FOCUS shell program (user interface) contains
numerous Help buttons, which gives detailed information on many technical
aspects.
There is also User Guide (manual.doc) which comes as part of the installation package.
Also : Ask a Question / Report
a Problem
Excerpt of existing model documentation related to FOCUS Groundwater/Surfacewater
FOCUS groundwater scenarios in the EU plant protection product
review process. - The report of the work of the Groundwater Scenarios Workgroup
of FOCUS (FOrum for the Co-ordination of pesticide fate models and their
USe), final version April 2000.
FOCUS, 2001. (Linders, J., P.I. Adriaanse, R. Allen, E. Capri, V. Gouy, J. Hollis, N.
Jarvis, M. Klein, P. Lolos, W-M Maier, S. Maund, C. Pais, M.H. Russell, J-L Teixeira,
S.Vizantinopoulos and D. Yon). FOCUS Surface Water Scenarios in the EU Evaluation Process
under 91/414/EEC. Report of the FOCUS Working Group on Surface Water Scenarios, EC Document
Reference SANCO/4802/2001, draft February 2003, 221 pp.