While the Daisy software is described in the bundled documentation, the scientific description of the models included in Daisy is spread in various scientific publication.

• Daisy was originally described in NAEP report A10, and this is still the most complete single scientific description of the model.
• A newer but less complete description of Daisy was later started, but never finished. It does contain good information of many never features.
• A description of the 2D transport numeric algoritms.
• Preferential flow in Daisy - for tile drained soil.

See the Daisy bibliography for additional (mostly external) references.