Selected USGS Surface-Water Publications
New & Noteworthy
T&M Chapters Stage, Discharge, & Levels
USGS WaterAlert
2011 Streamflow Summary
Threatened and Recently Discontinued Streamgages
Streamgaging Calendar
USGS in Your State
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Other Water Sites
Office of Ground Water
Office of Water Quality
Office of Hydrologic Research
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Selected USGS Surface-Water Publications
Recent Surface-Water Publications
Streamgaging
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
Floods
Sediment
Modeling
Journal Articles and Non-USGS Publications
- A Partial Summary of 2012 USGS Activities of the Interest to the FHWA and State Highway Agencies, (pdf = 244K), TRB 91st Annual Meeting, AFB60 Committee Meeting, January 15, 2013
- Comment on "Communicating Government Science, (pdf = 35K), EOS, 87, 2006
- 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)
- Regional streamflow regimes and hydroclimatoloty of the United States, (pdf = 423K), Water Resources Research, 33, 1997
- 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)
Historical Water Documents
- Plans and Specifications for Current-Meter Gaging Stations, Water Resources Branch, 1913
- Equipment for Gaging Stations for Measuring River Discharge, Plans and Specifications for Reinforced Concrete Well and Shelter for Water-Stage Recorders, Water Resources Branch, 1925
- Equipment for River Measurements, Plans and Specifications for Reinforced Concrete House and Well for Water-Stage Recorders, Water Resources Branch, 1933
- Equipment for River Measurements, Parshall Flume Type of Artificial Control, Supplement to 1933 Edition of Structures for Artificial Controls, Water Resources Branch, 1934
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