Animating Ground Water Levels with Excel Journal Articles

abstract

• AbstractThis note describes the use of Microsoft Excel macros (programs written in Excel's internal language, Visual Basic for Applications) to create simple onscreen animations of transient ground water data within Excel. Compared to many specialized visualization software packages, the use of Excel macros is much cheaper, much simpler, and can rapidly be learned. The Excel macro can also be used to create individual GIF files for each animation frame. This series of frames can then be used to create an AVI video file using any of a number of graphics packages, such as Corel PhotoPaint. The technique is demonstrated through a macro that animates changes in the elevation of a water table along a transect over several years.

authors

• Shikaze, Steven G
• Crowe, Allan

status

• published 

publication date

• July 2003

has subject area

• 0406 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience (FoR)
• 0799 Other Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences (FoR)
• Computer Graphics (MeSH)
• Environmental Engineering (Science Metrix)
• Models, Theoretical (MeSH)
• Software (MeSH)
• Soil (MeSH)
• Water Movements (MeSH)

published in

• Ground Water  Journal

keywords

• Computer Graphics
• Models, Theoretical
• Software
• Soil
• Water Movements

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2003.tb02390.x

PubMed ID

• 12873018

start page

• 548

end page

• 549

volume

• 41

issue

• 4