USGS Water Resources A-Z Index

Common hydrologic words, phrases or acronyms

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A

• Acid Rain
• ACWI (Advisory Committee on Water Information)
• ADAPS (Automated Data Processing System)
• Annual Water Data Reports
• Appropriation Doctrine: Definition and (Western US) Usage
• Aquifers
• Aquifer Code Reference List (National)
• Artificial Recharge
• AWUDS (Aggregate Water-Use Data System)

B

• Biosphere, see: Ecosystems
  • Global Land Cover Characterization
  • Exploring the Deep Biosphere
  • Deep Biosphere Studies at the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure
  • Human Impact on the Planet: An Earth System Science Perspective and Ethical Considerations
• Bridge Scour (National Project)

C

• Climate Change Publications Addressing Water Availability Issues (Recent)
• Contact
• Cooperative Program (The)

D

• DCP (Data Collection Platforms)
• DECODES (Device Conversion and Delivery System_
• Drinking-Water Research Topics
• Droughts

E

• EAP (Environmental Affairs Program)
• EDDN (Emergency Data Distribution Network)
• ESC (Executive Steering Committee) for the National Water Information System

F

• FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
• FGDC (Federal Geographic Data Committee)
• FISP (Federal Interagency Sedimentation Project)
• Floods

G

• Glossaries (Water Resources)
• GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites)
• Ground-Water
  • Geophysics and Ground Water / Hydrogeophysics
  • Ground-water/Surface-water Interactions
  • Ground-Water and Surface-Water Interactions Using Stable Isotopes
  • Ground-Water Atlas of the US (publication)
  • Ground-water availability
  • Ground-water levels
  • Ground-Water Networks (Ground-Water Watch)
  • Ground-Water Resources Program
  • Ground-water quality status and trends
  • GWSI (Ground-Water Site-Inventory)
• Geophysics and Ground Water / Hydrogeophysics

H

• HBN (Hydrologic Benchmark Network)
• HIF (Hydrologic Instrumentation Facility)
• HRD (Hydrologic Research and Development) Program
• Hydric soils, those that have become anaerobic due to continual saturation with water
• HUC (Hydrologic Unit Map)s
• Hydrogeophysics (Geophysics and Ground Water)
• Hydrography, National Dataset

I

• Isotope Hydrology

J

K

• Karst

L

• Land subsidence
• LIMS for Light Stable Isotopes
• LOADEST (LOAD ESTimator)
• LRGS (Local Readout Ground Station)

M

• Maps (index)
  1. Ground Water Atlas of the US (publication)
  2. National Atlas
• MODFLOW (MODular ground-water FLOW model

N

• NASQAN (National Stream Quality Accounting Network)
• National Atlas
• NAWQA (National Water-Quality Assessment Program)
  • NAWQA (National Water Quality Assessment) Data Warehouse
  • Digital Map Products
• NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act) of 1969
• NIWQP (National Irrigation Water Quality Program)
• NRP (National Research Program)
• NSIP (National Streamflow Information Program)
• NWISWeb (National Water Information System: Web Interface)
• NWIS (National Water Information System)
• NWRC (National Wetlands Research Center)

O

P

• Paleoclimate Records
• PASS (Platform Assignment and Scheduling System)
• Perchlorate Studies
• Podcasts about Water (Selected)
• Programs
• Publications (index)

Q

R

• Recharge (Artificial)
• Rivers
  • Daily Streamflow Conditions
  • River Ecosystem Modeling (publication)
  • National Hydrography Dataset (digital maps)
• RSIL (Reston Stable Isotope Laboratory)
• Runoff

S

• Science in Your Watershed
• Science Topics (Thesaurus)
• Scour (Bridge, National Project)
• Software (index)
• Stable Isotopes (Ground-Water and Surface-Water Interactions using)
• Students and Teachers (Water Resources Information for)
• Subsidence (land)
• Surface-Water
  • Surface-water(/Ground-water) Interactions
  • Surface-water quality status and trends
• Suspended-Sediment Database
• SUTRA (Saturated/Unsaturated zone ground-water TRAnsport model

T

• Teachers (Water Resources Information for Students and)
• Thesaurus of Science Topics
• Toxic Substances Hydrology Program

U

• Unsaturated Zone

V

W

• Wastewater Contamination
• Water Cycle
• Water Data Reports (Annual)
• Watershed (Science in Your)
• Water Use in the United States
• WaterWatch — Current water resources conditions
• WEBB (Water, Energy, and Biogeochemical Budgets) program
• Web Services (National Water Information System (NWIS) Water-Quality)
• Wetlands, National Research Center
• WRRI (State Water Resources Research Institute) Program
• WUDS (Water-Use Data System)

Y

Z

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