Selected USGS Surface-Water Publications

• • Recent Publications
  • Streamgaging
  • Streamflow Data and Information
  • Current Meters
  • Floods
  • Sediment
  • Modeling
  • Techniques of Water-Resources Investigations Reports
  • Journal Articles and Non-USGS Publications
  • Water Resources Glossaries
  • Links to Additional USGS Publications

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2008 Streamflow Summary

Threatened and Recently Distcontinued Streamgages

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Selected USGS Surface-Water Publications

Recent Surface-Water Publications

• Measuring Discharge with Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers from a Moving Boat (Techniques and Methods, Chapter 22 of Book 3, Section A)
• National Streamflow Information Program (General Information Product 70)
• An Evaluation of Selected Extraordinary Floods in the United States Reported by the U.S. Geological Survey and Implications for Future Advancement of Flood Science (USGS SIR 2008-5164) (online only)
• WaterWatch—Maps, Graphs, and Tables of Current, Recent, and Past Streamflow Conditions (FS-2008-3131)

Streamgaging

• FS-2007-3043 From the River to You: USGS Real-Time Streamflow Information
• FS-2007-3080 Recent Improvements to the U.S. Geological Survey Streamgaging Program ...from the National Streamflow Information Program
• Qualitative Comparison of Streamflow Information Programs of the U.S. Geological Survey and Three Non-Federal Agencies (USGS OFR 2007-1426)
• FS-2005-3131 U.S. Geological Survey Streamgaging ... from the National Streamgaging Information Program
• FS-2005-3020 Trends in the Water Budget of the Mississippi River Basin, 1949-1997 ... from the National Streamflow Information Program
• FS-2005-3019 Changes in Streamflow Timing in New England During the 20th Century ... from the National Streamflow Information Program
• FS-2005-3018 Changes in Streamflow Timing in the Western United States in Recent Decades ... from the National Streamflow Information Program
• FS-2005-3017 Streamflow Trends in the United States ... from the National Streamflow Information Program
• Quality-Assurance Plan for Discharge Measurements Using Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (USGS SIR 2005-5183)
• Design of a National Streamflow Information Program--Report with Recommendations of a Committee (USGS OFR 2004-1263)
• A Near-optimum Procedure for Selecting Stations in a Streamgaging Network (USGS SIR 2005-5001)
• U.S. Stream Flow Measurement and Data Dissemination Improve (Reprinted from EOS, Vol. 85, No. 20, 18 May 2004)
• Standards for the Analysis and Processing of Surface-Water Data and Information Using Electronic Methods (USGS WRIR 01-4044; 2001)
• A New Evaluation of the USGS Streamgaging Network -- A Report to Congress (1998)
• The Stream-Gaging Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS Circular 1123; 1995)
• FS-209-95 Stream Gaging and Flood Forecasting: A Partnership of the U.S. Geological Survey and the National Weather Service (OSW does not have hard copies of this FS, please print from the pdf.)
• Measurement and Computation of Streamflow, Vols. 1 and 2 (USGS WSP-2175; 1982)

Streamflow Data and Information

• FS-2004-3115 StreamStats: A U.S. Geological Survey Web Application for Stream Information
• FS-2004-3142 Distinguishing between Debris Flows and Floods from Field Evidence in Small Watersheds (OSW does not have hard copies of this FS, please print from the pdf.)
• FS-2004-3068 Cooperative Water Program--A Partnership in the Nation's Water-Resources Program (OSW does not have hard copies of this FS, please print from the pdf.)
• FS-052-02 WaterWatch--Maps and Graphs of Current Water Resources Conditions (OSW does not have hard copies of this FS, please print from the pdf.)
• FS-128-02 NWISWeb: New Site for the Nation's Water Data
• FS-048-01 National Streamflow Information Program--Implementation Plan and Progress Report
• Information Sheet Streamgages--Measuring the Pulse of our Nation's Rivers (OSW does not have hard copies of this FS, please print from the pdf.)
• NSIP Frequently Asked Questions National Streamflow Information Program--Questions and Answers
• FS-128-01 Cooperative Water Program--A Partnership in the Nation's Water-Resources Program (Updated version above.) (OSW does not have hard copies of this FS, please print from the pdf.)
• FS-006-97 Streamflow Information for the Nation (OSW has a limited amount of hard copies of this FS.)
• FS-059-95 USGS Water--Managing a National Resource (OSW has a limited amount of hard copies of this FS.)
• FS-066-95 USGS An Overview of the Stream-Gaging Program (OSW has a limited amount of hard copies of this FS.)
• Policy Recommendations for Management and Retention of Hydrologic Data of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS OFR 92-56; 1992)

Current Meters

• Quality Assurance of U.S. Geological Survey Stream Current Meters: The Meter-Exchange Program 1988-98 (USGS OFR 99-221; 1999)

Floods

• National Flood Summary Reports
• FS-2006-3095 1976 Big Thompson Flood, Colorado--Thirty Years Later
• Summary of Significant Floods in the United States and Puerto Rico, 1994 Through 1998 Water Years (USGS SIR 2005-5194)--online only
• Summary of Significant Floods in the United States and Puerto Rico, 1994 Through 1998 Water Years (USGS SIR 2005-5194)
• The World's Largest Floods--Past and Present (USGS Circular 1254; 2004)
• Large Floods in the United States: Where They Happen and Why (USGS Circular 1245; 2003)
• FS-019-03 The 1903 and 1993 Floods in Kansas--The Effects of Changing Times and Technology (OSW does not have hard copies of this FS, please print from the pdf.)
• FS-076-03 Effects of Urban Development on Floods
• FS-084-02 Using the National Flood Frequency Program, Version 3: A Computer Program for Estimating Magnitude and Frequency of Floods for Ungaged Sites
• FS-024-00 Significant Floods in the United States During the 20th Century--USGS Measures a Century of Floods (OSW does not have hard copies of this FS, please print from the pdf.)

Sediment

• A Guide to the Proper Selection and Use of Federally Approved Sediment and Water-Quality Samplers (USGS OFR 2005-1087)
• Comparability of Suspended-Sediment Concentration and Total Suspended Solids Data (USGS WRIR 00-4191; 2000) (pdf = 572K)
• FS-244-96 Rapid-Estimation Method for Assessing Scour at Highway Bridges on Limited Site Data (OSW does not have hard copies of this FS, please print from the pdf.)

Modeling

• Computation of Flow Through Water-Control Structures Using Program DAMFLO.2 (USGS OFR 03-473)
• FS-147-00 Modeling Water Quality in Rivers using the Branched Lagrangian Transport Model (BLTM)
• Prediction of Traveltime and Longitudinal Dispersion in Rivers and Streams (USGS WRIR 96-4013; 1996)

Techniques of Water-Resources Investigations Reports (TWRIs)

Journal Articles and Non-USGS Publications

• Benefits of USGS Streamgaging Program (pdf = 1.7M), Users and Uses of USGS Streamflow Data, by the National Hydrologic Warning Council, March 7, 2006
• Flood Management Benefits of USGS Streamgage Program (pdf = 4.3M)
  by the National Hydrologic Warning Council, October 19, 2006
• Guidelines for Determining Flood Flow Frequency (Bulletin 17B and PeakFQ Information)
• Nature's style: Naturally trendy (Geophysical Research Letters, 32, 2005)
• Seasonal and regional characteristics of streamflow trends in the United States from 1940-1999 (Physical Geography, 26, 2005)
• Observed trends in hydrologic cycle components (Encyclopedia of Hydrological Sciences, vol. 5, part 17, 2005.)
• Comments on "Evidence for global runoff increase related to climate warming" by Labat et al. (Advances in Water Resources, 28, 2005)
• Changes in the timing of high river flows in New England over the 20th Century (Journal of Hydrology, 278, 2003)
• A Step Increase in Streamflow in the Conterminous United States (Geophysical Research Letters, 29, 2002)
• Streamflow Trends in the United States (Geophysical Research Letters, 26, 1999)
• Stream Corridor Restoration: Principles, Processes, and Practices (1998)
• Increasing U.S. Streamflow Linked to Greenhouse Forcing (EOS, Vol. 75, No. 25, Pages 281, 284-285)
• Flood-Frequency Analyses with Prerecord Information (American Society of Civil Engineers Journal, February 1978)

Water Resources Glossaries

Links to Additional USGS Publications

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