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SAMS 2010 is freely available to all interested users. SAMS is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 as published by the Free Software Foundation. The license terms are listed here. Any download and use of the software implies acceptance of the license agreement.

Disclaimer

The software provided herein is on an "as is" basis, and we have no obligation to provide maintenance, support, updates, enhancements, or modifications. In no event shall the authors be liable to any party for direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages arising out of the use of this software and its documentation. We specifically disclaim any warranties, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of fitness for a particular purpose.

Support

We provide very limited support to help first time users getting started. Special arrangements can be made for support involving case studies, special projects, etc.

Acknowledgment

If SAMS is utilized for any purpose such as training/teaching, research, and project work we would appreciate it very much that appropriate references be made to the source in the corresponding papers, reports, and books as the case may be.

Software

SAMS may be downloaded here. This download file is a Microsoft Windows 7/8/10 Installer (executable) and includes the SAMS software, required graphics libraries, Example files, a Users' Manual, and other documentation.

Source Code - SAMS source code may be downloaded here, subject to the license agreement. It will eventually be cleaned up and placed in a Github repository. In the meantime please contact us if you would like to help with testing and improving the software. A proprietary graphics library (SIGL) was used in development; unfortunately we cannot provide the source code for that library. The SAMS Installer was built using Inno Script Studio; build files can be obtained here.

Installation Instructions

Requirements are a Microsoft Windows 7/8/10 operating system, and administrative rights (or elevated privileges) are needed to install SAMS. This is due to the use of a graphics library (SIGL) that modifies the Windows registry to properly locate shared (dll) libraries.

Download the installer.

Run the executable and follow the screen prompts.

Manual

The SAMS 2010 users' manual is included in the SAMS installer package; the users' manual is also available here.

Example Files

There are several example files included in the SAMS installer package. The examples consist of .sam files directly usable by SAMS (Colorado River, Niger Rive), Excel files to develop SAMS input files, and .dat streamflow files for various sites (Yakima River and Niger Rivers). Example files are also available here.

LAST and Monthly-to-Daily Streamflow Disaggregation

As the original basis for SAMS, Lane's Applied Stochastic Techniques (LAST) package and a monthly-to-daily streamflow dissagregation tool developed by Bill Lane (including source code, user manuals, and 32-bit Windows executables) are made available here for historical reasons.

LAST Package (version 6.0), 2003

MTD - Monthly-to-Daily Disaggregation (applied on the Middle Rio Grande), 2004