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Surface-Water Reports
Streamgaging

U.S. Stream Flow Measurement and Data Dissemination Improve (Reprinted from EOS, Vol. 85, No. 20, 18 May 2004)
Standards for the Analysis and Processing of Surface-Water Data and Information Using Electronic Methods (USGS WRIR 01-4044; 2001)
A New Evaluation of the USGS Streamgaging Network -- A Report to Congress (1998)
Stream Gaging and Flood Forecasting (USGS FS-209-95; 1995)
The Stream-Gaging Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS Circular 1123; 1995)

Streamflow Data and Information

WaterWatch--Current Water Resources Conditions (USGS FS-052-02; 2002)
Streamflow Information for the Nation (USGS FS-006-97; 1997)
Policy Recommendations for Management and Retention of Hydrologic Data of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS OFR 92-56; 1992)

Current Meters

Quality Assurance of U.S. Geological Survey Stream Current Meters: The Meter-Exchange Program 1988-98 (USGS OFR 99-221; 1999)

Floods

Large Floods in the United States: Where They Happen and Why (USGS Circular 1245; 2003)
The World's Largest Floods--Past and Present (USGS Circular 1254; 2004)

Sediment

Comparability of Suspended-Sediment Concentration and Total Suspended Solids Data (USGS WRIR 00-4191; 2000) (pdf = 586 Kb)

Modeling

Modeling Water Quality in Rivers using the Branched Lagrangian Transport Model (BLTM) (USGS FS-147-00; 2000) (pdf = 761 Kb)
Prediction of Traveltime and Longitudinal Dispersion in Rivers and Streams (USGS WRIR 96-4013; 1996)

Journal Articles

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)

Other Surface-Water Publications

USGS Techniques of Water-Resources Investigations Reports (TWRIs)
Measurement and Computation of Streamflow, Vols. 1 and 2 (USGS WSP-2175; 1982)
Stream Corridor Restoration: Principles, Processes, and Practices (1998)

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