Selected USGS Groundwater Publications
New & Noteworthy
ModelMuse: Graphical User Interface for MODFLOW-2005 and PHAST (TM 6-A29)
Groundwater: Ground water versus groundwater (OGW Technical Memo 2009.03)
Field Techniques for Estimating Water Fluxes Between Surface Water and Ground Water (TM 4–D2)
Ground-Water Availability in the United States (Circular 1323)
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Selected USGS Groundwater Publications
Recent Groundwater Publications
Introductory Documents on Groundwater Hydrology
National Overviews
- Ground Water Atlas of the United States
- Aquifer Maps on the National Atlas
(Printed wall map, 1:7,500,000 and spatial data sets, 1:2,500,000)
- Bibliography of Regional aquifer system analysis (RASA) studies, 1978-96 (WRIR 97-4074)
- Flow and Storage in Groundwater Systems (from Science Magazine, June 14, 2002)
- A Brief History of Contributions to Ground Water Hydrology by the USGS (from Ground Water, July-August, 2004)
- Strategic Directions for the U.S. Geological Survey Ground-Water Resources Program - A Report to Congress (1998)
USGS Circulars
USGS Circulars are directed at general or scientific audiences and present short summaries or articles of short-term, popular, or local interest.
USGS Fact Sheets
USGS Water-Resources Fact Sheets are concise and timely publications that describe programs, projects, products, and water-resources topics to either a general or professional audience.
USGS Training and Methods Documents
Techniques and Methods Reports are directed at technically oriented audiences and present methods and techniques used in collecting, analyzing, and processing hydrologic data
USGS Conference Proceedings
- USGS Karst Interest Group Proceedings, Bowling Green, Kentucky, May 27-29, 2008 (SIR 2008-5023)
- Subsidence Interest Group Conference, Proceedings of the Technical Meeting, Galveston, Texas, November 27-29, 2001 (OFR 03-308)
- USGS Artificial Recharge Workshop Proceedings, Sacramento, California, April 2-4, 2002 (OFR 02-89)
- Effects of Animal Feeding Operations (AFOs) on Hydrologic Resources and the Environment -- Proceedings of the 1999 USGS conference (OFR 00-204)
Groundwater Modeling and Hydraulics
- Harbaugh, A.W., 2005, MODFLOW-2005, The U.S. Geological Survey modular ground-water model -- the Ground-Water Flow Process (TM 6-A16)
- Barlow, P.M., and Harbaugh, A.W., 2006, USGS Directions in MODFLOW Development (Ground Water) (80KB PDF)
- Reilly, T.E., and Harbaugh, A.W. , 2004, Guidelines for evaluating ground-water flow models (SIR2004-5038)
- System And Boundary Conceptualization In Ground-Water Flow Simulation (TWRI Book 3, Chapter B8)
- GWM - A Ground-Water Management Process for the USGS Modular Ground-Water Model (OFR 2005-1072)
Aquifer Tests
MODFLOW Resources
- MODFLOW-2005 software and user guides
- MODFLOW-2000 software and user guides
- Ahlfeld, D.P., Barlow, P.M., and Mulligan, A.E., 2005, GWM—A Ground–Water Management Process for the U.S. Geological Survey Modular Ground–Water Model (MODFLOW–2000) (OFR 2005-1072)
- Jörn Hoffmann, S.A. Leake, D.L. Galloway, and Alicia M. Wilson, 2003, MODFLOW-2000 Ground-Water Model - User Guide to the Subsidence and Aquifer-System Compaction (SUB) Package (OFR 03-233)
- D.E. Prudic, L.F. Konikow, and E.R. Banta, 2004, A New Streamflow-Routing (SFR1) package to simulate stream-aquifer interaction with MODFLOW-2000 (OFR 04-1042)
- Langevin, C.D., Thorne, D.T., Jr., Dausman, A.M., Sukop, M.C., and Guo, Weixing, 2007, SEAWAT Version 4: A Computer Program for Simulation of Multi-Species Solute and Heat Transport (Techniques and Methods Book 6, Chapter A22)
- Computer programs for Telescopic Mesh Refinement using MODFLOW-96 Leake and Claar, 1999, OFR 99-238)
- Markstrom, S.L., Niswonger, R.G., Regan, R.S., Prudic, D.E., and Barlow, P.M., 2008, GSFLOW - Coupled Ground-water and Surface-water FLOW model based on the integration of the PRMS and MODFLOW-2005 (Techniques and Methods 6-D1)
Data Collection
Water Use
Links to Additional USGS Publications
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