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Links for Water Resources Engineering Course

Hydrology Current Issues

Brown and Caldwell Water News: National Edition; California Archives
California Water Blog - UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences
Local Storm Water Issues: SCVURPPP

General Hydrology

Roughness Characteristics of Natural Channels (USGS WSP 1849, Barnes)
USBR Water Measurement Manual
USGS Streamflow Measurement
The Earth's Water Budget: storage and fluxes
USGS Surface-Water Field Methods Training Class
NRCS National Engineering Handbook - Hydraulics and Hydrology
FHWA - Highway Hydrology, second edition
US Army Corps of Engineers - Training Documents in Hydrology and Hydraulics

Data Sources

General Data Sources

National Inventory of Dams
EOS Data Gateway at harp.gsfc.nasa.gov
PSU Earth System Science Center
USGS National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse
Home Page - The National Atlas of the United States of America
National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
Hydrology and Precipitation
NASA's Global Change Master Directory

Streamflow

Daily U.S. Streamflow Map
Welcome To UNH/GRDC Composite Runoff Fields V1.0
USGS Surface-Water Data for USA
Global River Discharge Database Project Description
HCDN CD-ROM Data
USGS National Streamflow Information Program

DEM and Elevation-Derived Data

GTOPO30 - Global Topographic Data
USGS Hydro Home Page

Meteorological

National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
PRISM Climate Mapping Project , climate data sets, GIS data sets
GHCN Global Historical Climatology Network
GPCP - Global Precipitation Climatology Project
Western Regional Climate Center
NCDC Climate Data Online
 

Atmospheric Radiation

Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program
Welcome to the National Science Foundation's Global UV Monitoring Research and Publications web site.
National Ultraviolet Monitoring Center
USDA UVB Radiation Monitoring Program Home Page
Climate Monitoring & Diagnostics Labortory
SRRB Home Page
ISIS
National Solar Radiation Data Base

Projects/Programs

GEWEX -- Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment
IGBP Home Page
GCIP/GAPP
LDAS - Land Surface Hydrology Program
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science

Land Cover

EDC - N.A. Land Cover Data
Land Cover Data 1-km grid (Penn State)
North America Land Cover Char. Documentation
UMD 1km Global Land Cover

Soils

USDA-NRCS(SCS)-SoilsData
Soil Data Page - Penn State
Land Data Assimilation Schemes (LDAS): Parameters

Snow Data

NWS Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center
National Water and Climate Center - SNOW
Cooperative Snow Surveys
Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL)
SNOTEL Maps
National Snow and Ice Data Center
The MODIS Snow/Ice Global Mapping Project
Snow Pack Maps & Snotel Data
Kids Snow Page
NOHRSC ftp site

Satellite Data

The MODIS Snow/Ice Global Mapping Project
EOS Satellite Launches
Global browse images for MODIS land products
Known issues in MOD10 product (Snow Cover)
MODIS Land Rapid Response Webpage
Satellite Orbits
Satellites - NASA J-Pass 2.0
TERRA (EOS AM-1)
Aqua Home Page
EOS Data Resources
EOS data - by instrument
EOS Data Gateway (EOSDIS)
 
 

Climatic Oscillations

The Pacific Decadal Oscillation
North Atlantic Oscillation
El Niño Theme Page: distributed information on El Niño
North Atlantic Oscillation
Arctic Oscillation (AO)
 
 

Overseas Technical Links

WEDC
IT Home Page
Instituto Geofísico del Perú
Universidad Nacional del Altiplano
Eritrea Climate, Energy, Environment and Technology Site
IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre
Volunteers in Technical Assistance
Agua Para La Vida Home
UNESCO - Prog. Hidrologico Int'l
Green Pages - The Global Directory for Environmental Technology
Programa Hidrologico Internacional | Participantes
International Development Network (IDN) - IDN Development Links
 

Hydrology/Hydraulics Software

USGS Water Resources Applications Software
Internet Software Guide for Engineers
Hydrotools Software : Hydraulics and Hydrology Engineering Software
Free Hydrology and Hydraulics Software