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
- 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)
- Equivalents, water
- 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
- Hydrologic Cycle
I
J
K
L
- Land subsidence
- LIMS for Light Stable Isotopes
- LOADEST (LOAD ESTimator)
- LRGS (Local Readout Ground Station)
M
- Maps (index)
- Ground Water Atlas of the US (publication)
- National Atlas
- MODFLOW (MODular ground-water FLOW model
N
- NASQAN (National Stream Quality Accounting Network)
- National Atlas
- NAWQA (National Water-Quality Assessment Program)
- 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)
- Stilling Basin (definition)
- Stilling Well
- Students and Teachers (Water Resources Information for)
- Subsidence (land)
- Surface-Water
- 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
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)
- WRD, Water Resources Division until 2005, when redefined as Water Resources Discipline; The group within USGS dedicated to the application of the hydrologic sciences on behalf of the United States public
- Wetlands, National Research Center
- WRRI (State Water Resources Research Institute) Program
- WUDS (Water-Use Data System)
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