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Surface-water quality and flow Modeling Interest Group
Feature Articles
Approximately twice per year, at least up until a year or so ago, a new set
of feature articles is added to these web pages. These are contributed
articles describing models, projects, or tools of general interest to
the modeling community. The articles may be simple project summaries,
notes about modeling tools, or full-blown publications. I hope you find
them to be interesting. The next set may appear by September, 2004.
September 2002
Near-Real-Time Flood Modeling and Mapping for the Internet
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by Joseph L. Jones1 and Janice M. Fulford2
1 USGS - Tacoma, Washington
2 USGS - Stennis Space Center, Mississippi
Effects of a Simulated Change in Land Cover on Surface-Water Velocity
Distribution at a Bridge in Southeastern Arkansas
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by C. Shane Barks and Jaysson E. Funkhouser
USGS - Little Rock, Arkansas
Use of Velocity Data to Calibrate and Validate Two-Dimensional Hydrodynamic
Models
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by Chad R. Wagner and David S. Mueller
USGS - Louisville, Kentucky
A Comment on the Use of Flushing Time, Residence Time, and Age as Transport
Time Scales
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by Nancy E. Monsen1, James E. Cloern1,
Lisa V. Lucas1, and Stephen G. Monismith2
1 USGS - Menlo Park, California
2 Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Evaluating Water Allocations for Drought Management
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by Sharon G. Campbell1, Marshall Flug1,
and R. Blair Hanna2
1 USGS - Fort Collins, Colorado
2 Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
Estimation of Tidal Marsh Loading Effects in a Complex Estuary
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by Paul A. Conrads1, Edwin A. Roehl2,
and John B. Cook3
1 USGS, Columbia, South Carolina
2 Advanced Data Mining, Greer, South Carolina
3 Charleston Commiss. of Public Works, Charleston, South Carolina
Development of a Neural Network Model for Dissolved Oxygen in the Tualatin
River, Oregon
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by Stewart A. Rounds
USGS - Portland, Oregon
Simulating the Effects of Ground-Water Withdrawals on Streamflow in a
Precipitation-Runoff Model
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by Phillip J. Zarriello1, Paul M. Barlow1,
and Paul B. Duda2
1 USGS - Northborough, Massachusetts
2 Aqua Terra Consultants, Dacatur, Georgia
Estimating Cumulative Effects of Clearcutting on Stream Temperatures
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by John M. Bartholow
USGS - Fort Collins, Colorado
March 2002
Modeling Water Quality in Rivers using the Branched Lagrangian Transport
Model (BLTM)
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by Harvey E. Jobson
USGS - Reston, Virginia
Estimating Point-Source Impacts on the Beaufort River Using Artificial
Neural Network Models
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by Paul A. Conrads1, Edwin A. Roehl, Jr.2,
and William P. Martello3
1 USGS - Columbia, South Carolina
2 Advanced Data Mining - Greer, South Carolina
3 Jordan, Jones, and Goulding - Athens, Georgia
Mountain Island Lake, North Carolina: Analysis of Ambient Conditions and
Simulation of Hydrodynamics, Constituent Transport, and Water-Quality
Characteristics, 1996-97
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by Jerad D. Bales1, Kathleen M. Sarver2,
and Mary J. Giorgino1
1 USGS - Raleigh, North Carolina
2 USGS - Charlotte, North Carolina
Analysis of Ambient Conditions and Simulation of Hydrodynamics, Constituent
Transport, and Water-Quality Characteristics in Lake Maumelle, Arkansas,
1991-92
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by W. Reed Green
USGS - Little Rock, Arkansas
Evaluating the Effects of Urbanization and Land-Use Planning Using
Ground-Water and Surface-Water Models
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by Randall J. Hunt and Jeffrey J. Steuer
USGS - Middleton, Wisconsin
Simulation of Flow and Evaluation of Bridge Scour at Horse Island Chute
Bridge near Chester, Illinois
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by Richard J. Huizinga and Paul H. Rydlund, Jr.
USGS - Rolla, Missouri
Calibration and Validation of a Two-Dimensional Hydrodynamic Model of the
Ohio River, Jefferson County, Kentucky
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by Chad R. Wagner and David S. Mueller
USGS - Louisville, Kentucky
Steady-State Flow Distribution and Monthly Flow Duration in Selected Branches
of St. Clair and Detroit Rivers within the Great Lakes Waterway
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by David J. Holtschlag1 and John A. Koschik2
1 USGS - Lansing, Michigan
2 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, Detroit, Michigan
March 2001
Visualization of Drifting Buoy Deployments on St. Clair River
near Public Water Intakes-October 3-5, 2000
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by David J. Holtschlag and Steve S. Aichele
USGS - Lansing, Michigan
Equations for Estimating Clark Unit-Hydrograph Parameters
for Small Rural Watersheds in Illinois
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by Timothy D. Straub1, Charles S. Melching2,
and Kyle E. Kocher3
1 USGS - Urbana, Illinois
2 Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
3 Reitz & Jens Inc., St. Louis, Missouri
Characterization of Rainfall-Runoff Response and Estimation of the Effect
of Wetland Restoration on Runoff, Heron Lake Basin, Southwestern Minnesota,
1991-1997
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by Perry M. Jones and Thomas A. Winterstein
USGS - Mounds View, Minnesota
Effects of Water Withdrawals on Streamflow in the Ipswich River Basin,
Massachusetts
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by Phillip J. Zarriello
USGS - Northborough, Massachusetts
Modeling Water Quality in the Tualatin River, Oregon, 1991-1997
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by Stewart A. Rounds and Tamara M. Wood
USGS - Portland, Oregon
September 2000
Real-Time Control of the Salt Front in a Complex, Tidally Affected River
Basin
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by Edwin A. Roehl1, Paul A. Conrads2, and Thomas A. S. Roehl3
1 OptiQuest Technologies - Greenville, South Carolina
2 USGS - Columbia, South Carolina
3 Riverside High School, Greer, South Carolina
Characterization of Water Quality and Simulation of Temperature, Nutrients,
Biochemical Oxygen Demand, and Dissolved Oxygen in the Wateree River, South
Carolina, 1996-98
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by Toby D. Feaster and Paul A. Conrads
USGS - Columbia, South Carolina
Bottom Currents and Sediment Transport in Long Island Sound: A Modeling Study
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by Richard P. Signell, Jeffrey H. List, and Amy S. Farris
USGS - Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Bias in Runoff Parameter Estimation Induced by Rainfall Data
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by Timothy D. Straub and Ronald J. Bednar
USGS - Urbana, Illinois
March 2000
Modifications to the Diffusion Analogy Surface-Water Flow Model (DAFLOW) for
Coupling to the Modular Finite-Difference Ground-Water Flow Model (MODFLOW)
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by Harvey E. Jobson and Arlen W. Harbaugh
USGS - Reston, Virginia
Using OTIS to Model Solute Transport in Streams and Rivers
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by Robert L. Runkel
USGS - Denver, Colorado
Estimates of Runoff Using Water-Balance and Atmospheric General Circulation
Models
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by David M. Wolock1 and Gregory J. McCabe2
1 USGS - Lawrence, Kansas
2 USGS - Denver, Colorado
General-Circulation-Model Simulations of Future Snowpack in the Western
United States
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by Gregory J. McCabe1 and David M. Wolock2
1 USGS - Denver, Colorado
2 USGS - Lawrence, Kansas
Modeling Sand Bank Formation Around Tidal Headlands
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by Richard P. Signell and Courtney K. Harris
USGS - Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Modeling Surface Trapped River Plumes: A Sensitivity Study
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by Jason Hyatt and Richard P. Signell
USGS - Woods Hole, Massachusetts
September 1999
Predicting the Physical Effects of Relocating Boston's Sewage Outfall
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by Richard P. Signell1, Harry L. Jenter2,
and Alan F. Blumberg3
1 USGS, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
2 USGS, Reston, Virginia
3 HydroQual, Inc, Mahwah, New Jersey
Watershed Modeling Approach to Assessing the Hydrologic Effects of Future
Development in the Ninemile Creek Basin, Onondaga County, New York
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by Phillip J. Zarriello
USGS - Ithaca, New York
Hydraulic Modeling of In-channel Habitats in the Ozark Highlands of Missouri:
Assessment of Physical Habitat Sensitivity to Environmental Change
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by Maria S. Panfil and Robert B. Jacobson
USGS - Columbia, Missouri
March 1999
Comparing Physics-Based and Neural Network Models for Simulating Salinity,
Temperature, and Dissolved Oxygen in a Complex, Tidally Affected River Basin
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by Paul A. Conrads1 and Edwin A. Roehl Jr.2
1USGS - Columbia, South Carolina
2OptiQuest Technologies - Greenville, South Carolina
Real-Time Control for Matching Wastewater Discharges to the Assimilative
Capacity of a Complex, Tidally Affected River Basin
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by Edwin A. Roehl Jr.1 and Paul A. Conrads2
1OptiQuest Technologies - Greenville, South Carolina
2USGS - Columbia, South Carolina
Precipitation-Runoff, Suspended-Sediment, and Flood-Frequency
Characteristics for Urbanized Areas of Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska
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by Timothy P. Brabets
USGS - Anchorage, Alaska
Analysis of Transient Storage Subject to Unsteady Flow: Diel Flow
Variation in an Antarctic Stream
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by Robert L. Runkel1, Diane M. McKnight2,
and Edmund D. Andrews3
1USGS - Denver, Colorado
2University of Colorado, Boulder
3USGS - Boulder, Colorado
Construction of a Precipitation-Runoff Model for Pheasant Branch
Creek, Middleton, WI
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by Jeffrey J. Steuer
USGS - Middleton, Wisconsin
September 1998
Dynamic Modeling of Water-Supply Reservoir Physical and Chemical Processes
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by Jerad D. Bales and Mary J. Giorgino
USGS - Raleigh, North Carolina
Updating Flood Inundation Maps Efficiently: Building on Existing Hydraulic
Information and Modern Elevation Data with a GIS
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by Joseph L. Jones, Tana L. Haluska, Alex K. Williamson, and
Martha L. Erwin
USGS - Tacoma, Washington
Spatially Referenced Regression Modeling of Nutrient Loading in the
Chesapeake Bay Watershed
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by Stephen D. Preston1, Richard A. Smith2,
Gregory E. Schwarz2, Richard B. Alexander2,
and John W. Brakebill1
1USGS - Baltimore, Maryland
2USGS - Reston, Virginia
Simulation Model for Open-Channel Flow and Transport
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by Raymond W. Schaffranek
USGS - Reston, Virginia
The Fox River PCB Transport Study - Stepping Stone to a Healthy Great Lakes
Ecosystem
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by Sharon A. Fitzgerald1 and Jeffrey J. Steuer2
1USGS - St. Petersburg, Florida
2USGS - Middleton, Wisconsin
Does the Sverdrup Critical Depth Model Explain Bloom Dynamics in Estuaries?
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by Lisa V. Lucas1,2, James E. Cloern1, Jeffrey R.
Koseff2, Stephen G. Monismith2, and Janet K.
Thompson1,2
1USGS - Menlo Park, California
2Stanford University - Stanford, California
March 1998
Two-dimensional Habitat Modeling in the Yellowstone / Upper Missouri
River System
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by Terry Waddle, Ken Bovee, and Zachary Bowen
USGS - Fort Collins, Colorado
Flood-Control Effects of Truckee River Basin Reservoirs, December 31,
1996, Through January 4, 1997, California and Nevada
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by Steven N. Berris, Glen W. Hess, R. Lynn Taylor,
and Larry R. Bohman
USGS - Carson City, Nevada
Using CE-QUAL-W2 to Assess the Effect of Reduced Phosphorus Loads on
Chlorophyll-a and Dissolved Oxygen in the Tualatin River, Oregon
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by Tamara Wood and Stewart Rounds
USGS - Portland, Oregon
Using CE-QUAL-W2 to Assess the Ammonia Assimilative Capacity of the
Tualatin River, Oregon
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by Stewart Rounds and Tamara Wood
USGS - Portland, Oregon
Effects of Model Output Time-Averaging on the Determination of the
Assimilative Capacity of the Waccamaw River and Atlantic Intracoastal
Waterway near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
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by Paul A. Conrads
USGS - Columbia, South Carolina
Comparison of Nine Uncalibrated Runoff Models to Observed Flows in
Two Small Urban Watersheds
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by Phillip J. Zarriello
USGS - Ithaca, New York
September 1997
Estimating Ice-Affected Streamflow by Extended Kalman Filtering
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by David J. Holtschlag1
and Mohinder S. Grewal2
1USGS - Lansing, Michigan
2California State University - Fullerton
Summary of Water Temperature Calibration for a CE-QUAL-W2 Model of
Shasta Lake, California
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by Laurel Saito and John Bartholow
USGS - Fort Collins, Colorado
Snowmelt-Runoff Predictions in the Sierra Nevada
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by D.R. Cayan1,2, M.D. Dettinger2,
D.H. Peterson2, N. Knowles1, H.F. Diaz3,
L. Ingram4, L. Riddle1, R.E. Smith2,
and R. Uncles5
1Scripps Institution of Oceanography - La Jolla, California
2U.S. Geological Survey
3NOAA/ERL/Climate Diagnostics Center - Boulder, Colorado
4University of California - Berkeley
5Plymouth Marine Laboratory - UK
Enhancements to the Branched Lagrangian Transport Modeling System
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by Harvey Jobson
USGS - Reston, Virginia
April 1997
Simulation of Hourly Stream Temperature for the Truckee River,
California and Nevada
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by R. Lynn Taylor
USGS - Carson City, Nevada
Spotlight on the Illinois District Modeling Program
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compiled by Audrey Ishii
USGS - Urbana, Illinois
December 1996
Predicting Traveltime and Dispersion in Channels
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by Harvey Jobson
USGS - Reston, Virginia
Flow and Transport in the Pamlico and Neuse River Estuaries,
North Carolina
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by Jerad Bales
USGS - Raleigh, North Carolina
Spotlight on the South Carolina District Modeling Program
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by Stewart Rounds
USGS - Portland, Oregon
with help from
Paul Conrads, Wladmir Guimaraes, and Toby Feaster
USGS - Columbia, South Carolina
March 1996
Simulation Models for Conservative and Nonconservative
Solute Transport in Streams
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by Robert Runkel
USGS - Lakewood, Colorado
Modeling Discharge, Heat, and Water Quality in the Tualatin River with
CE-QUAL-W2
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by Stewart Rounds, Tamara Wood, and Dennis Lynch
USGS - Portland, Oregon
The Truckee-Carson program
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by Larry Bohman
USGS - Carson City, Nevada
A Procedure to Generate Slope-Area Plots and Compute Estimated Discharge
for Peak Flows in the Field Using a Portable Computer
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by Charles Berenbrock
USGS - Boise, Idaho
Using QUALTX and DAFLOW/BLTM to Simulate Water Quality in Texas Rivers
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by Joy Lizarraga
USGS - Towson, Maryland
To contribute a feature article, simply:
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email the text to me at
sarounds@usgs.gov, or
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FAX a hardcopy to me at (503) 251-3470, or
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send me email with an ftp address where I can retreive your file.
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