Library of Hydrologic Data and Related Techniques

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Hydrologic Data

Hydrologic Data Techniques

General Library

Search, Bibliographies, Guidance, General reference

Bibliography search

• USGS Library
• USGS Publications Warehouse
• EPA Environmental Publications Information System

Guidance Documents

• TWRI - Techniques of Water-Resources Investigations

Glossaries and Lists

• WSP-1541-A Manual of hydrology: General introduction and hydrologic definitions (1972)
• Hydrologic Units
  • Hydrologic Unit Maps
  • Delineation of Hydrologic Units

Surface Water

• Public education resources
  • The Water Cycle
  • Water Science for Schools
    • How streamflow is measured

Reports

General Hydrology, Floods & Droughts, Open-Channel Flow, Hydrograph Separation, Coastal Hydrology, Stream Restoration, Climate Change & Streamflow Analysis, Sediment

General Hydrology

• TP-40 Rainfall frequency atlas of the United States (from NWS)
• WSP-2425 National Water Summary on Wetland Resources
• WSP-2422 Sensitivity of water resources in the Delaware Basin
• WSP-2400 National Water Summary 1990-91--Hydrologic Events and Stream Water Quality
  • Delaware
  • Maryland and the District of Columbia
• WSP-2300 National Water Summary 1985--Hydrologic Events and Surface-Water Resources
  • Maryland and the District of Columbia
• WSP-1541-A Manual of hydrology: General introduction and hydrologic definitions (1972)
• OFR-Bue10-1968 Monthly surface-water inflow to Chesapeake Bay

Floods & Droughts

• Circular 2145 - Large floods in the United States: Where they happen and why
• WSP-2502 Summary of significant floods in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, 1970 through 1989
• WSP-2375 National Water Summary 1988-89--Floods and Droughts
  • Delaware
  • Maryland and the District of Columbia
  • Climate and droughts (p. 89-98)
  • Evapotranspiration and droughts (p. 99-104)
  • Paleohydrology and its value in analyzing floods and droughts (p. 105-116)
  • Management of water resources for drought conditions (p. 147-156)
• Historic variations in moisture availability (1998)
• WRI-98-4238 Factors related to the joint probability of flooding on paired streams (PDF)
• FS-229-96 The "100-year flood"
• FS-140-96 January 1996 floods deliver large loads of nutrients and sediments to the Chesapeake Bay
• OFR-93-641 Floods and floodplains

Open-Channel Flow

• WSP-1849 Roughness characteristics of natural channels
• WSP-2339 Guide for selecting Manning's roughness coefficients for natural channels and flood plains
• WSP-2441 Estimation of roughness coefficients for natural channels with vegetated banks
• WRI-96-4013 Prediction of traveltime and longitudinal dispersion in rivers and streams
• WRP Technical Note SD-CP-2.2 Effects of vegetation on hydraulic roughness and sedimentation in wetlands (1994)

Hydrograph Separation

• OFR-02-455 User guide for the PULSE program
• OFR-00-156 Considerations for use of the Rora program to estimate Groundwater recharge from streamflow records
• WRI 98-4148 Computer programs for describing the recession of Groundwater discharge and for estimating mean Groundwater recharge and discharge from streamflow records--Update
• WRI 97-4253 Model-estimated Groundwater recharge and hydrograph of Groundwater discharge to a stream
• WRI-96-4040 HYSEP: A computer program for streamflow hydrograph separation and analysis

Coastal Hydrology

• DGS-OFR-40 The coastal storms of January 27-29 and February 4,6, 1998, Delaware and Maryland

Stream Restoration

• Bankfull Discharge and Channel Characteristics of Streams in the Allegheny Plateau and Valley and Ridge Hydrologic Regions
• Bankfull Discharge and Channel Characteristics of Streams in the Piedmont Hydrologic Region
• Bankfull Discharge and Channel Characteristics of Streams in the Coastal Plain Hydrologic Region
• Stream corridor restoration handbook
• OFR-96-554 A modified index for scour assessment

Climate change & streamflow analysis

• TM-4-A6 The National Streamflow Statistics Program: A Computer Program for Estimating Streamflow Statistics for Ungaged Sites (2006)
• A step increase in streamflow in the conterminous United States (2002)
• Streamflow trends in the United States (1999)

Sediment

• WRI-00-4191 Comparability of suspended-sediment concentration and total suspended solids data
• Circular 2150 - Proceedings of the Federal Interagency Workshop on Turbidity and other Sediment Surrogates, April 30-May 2, 2002, Reno, Nevada
• Proceedings of USGS Sediment Workshop - 4-7 February, 1997

Hydrologic Software

Sources, Data retreival, Daily analysis, Peak analysis, Baseflow analysis, Modeling, Spatial data

Software sources

• USGS Surface-Water Software
• NWS Office of Water Prediction
• Commercial software
  • None currently listed

Peak flow analysis

• PEAKFQ (Flood-frequency analysis) [ Program | Manual  ]

Baseflow and hydrograph separation

• OGW Groundwater and surface-water interactions
• HYSEP (Hydrograph Separation) [ Program | Manual  ]

Surface-water modeling

• (for future use)

Other software

• (for future use)

Spatial Water Data

Tools & Techniques

Data forms, Analysis tools, Field & data tools, Standards, Outside USGS

Analysis tools

• (for future use)

Standards

• Analysis of impact of map projection

Outside USGS

• USEPA Watershed Tools
• NWS Hydrologic Services Program | Reference Manual

Hydrologic Trivia

• Which streamgages in the United States have the longest data records?
• Why does the USGS use Gage instead of Gauge? (COMING)