Software
In addition to conducting innovative science investigations, the Upper Midwest Water Science Center also evaluates, expands, and creates environmental software, modeling, and statistical packages. We also provide data for software and model calibration. (Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.)
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WRTDSplus: Extensions to the WRTDS method.
For some sites and constituents the three dimensions of the Weighted Regressions on Time, Discharge, and Season (WRTDS) model do not capture all the important aspects of water quality variability. For example, in some locations hysteresis or antecedent flow conditions are important influences on water quality concentration and loads. In other places, daily flow is less predictive than the quick fl
GW-NDST software v 1.1.1
This version 1.1.1 release of the Groundwater Nitrate Decision Support Tool (GW-NDST) for Wisconsin supersedes the version 1.1.0 release. This version 1.1.1 release includes updated instructions in the readme file and fixes minor bugs.
Python for Hydrology Self Study Curriculum
This repository contains study materials for python programming for hydrologic applications and a focus on groundwater modeling with flopy. The materials are used in an in-person curriculum at the USGS and provided here for reference for the larger hydrologic community.
GW-NDST software v 1.1.0
Official version 1.1.0 software release of the Groundwater-Nitrate Decision Support Tool (GW-NDST) for Wisconsin. This release (v1.1.0) is matched with and described by Juckem, P.F., Corson-Dosch, N.T., Schachter, L.A., Green, C.T., Ferin, K.M., Booth, E.G., Kucharik, C.J., Austin, B.P., and Kauffman, L.J., 2024, Design and calibration of a Nitrate Decision Support Tool for Groundwater wells in W
NO3GWT version 1.0.0
A groundwater Nitrate Decision Support Tool (GW-NDST) for wells in Wisconsin was developed to assist resource managers with assessing how legacy and possible future nitrate leaching rates, combined with groundwater lag times and potential denitrification, influence nitrate concentrations in wells (Juckem et al. 2024). The GW-NDST was reviewed and approved by the journal via this official USGS appr
EGRET
An R-package for the analysis of long-term changes in water quality and streamflow, including the water-quality method Weighted Regressions on Time, Discharge, and Season (WRTDS).
GageStats Services
The Gage Statistic (GageStats) Services were developed to provide gage characteristics and streamflow statistics to support the StreamStats application via RESTful principles. The StreamStats application uses GageStats Services to display the gages and related gage pages. These services provide U.S. Geological Survey developed and published gage characteristics such as drainage area or mean basin
dataRetrieval
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) developed an R package called dataRetrieval to help simplify the process of discovering and retrieving water quality sample data, streamflow, groundwater, and other data available from Federal hydrologic web services such as National Water Information Systems (NWIS), the EPA Water Quality Exchange (WQX) System, and the National Hydrologic Dataset via the Hydro-Ne
StreamStats Channel Width Weighting Services
This software release contains Python functions for weighting multiple non-independent estimates of a variable. Weighting is determined by the standard error of prediction of each estimate and the correlation between the estimation methods. The methodology for weighting estimates from either two or three different methods is described in Chase and others (2020). A function is also included to han
NWTOPT
Hyperparameter optimization approaches were applied to improve performance and accuracy of groundwater flow models. Freely available new software, NWTOPT, is described that uses Tree of Parzen Estimators (TPE) and Random Search optimization algorithms to optimize MODFLOW-NWT’s solver settings. We ran 3500 trials on a steady-state and transient model. To quantify the performance of candidate solver
wqReport
This is an R-package designed to create water-quality reports for either U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) wildlife refuge boundaries, or user-specified Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC) boundaries (8 or 10 digit HUC services are available). Functions are included to take the user's geographical request, and find the sites that measure water-quality parameters, and retrieve that data. A workflow walks
ToxMixtures: A package to explore toxicity due to chemical mixtures
The ToxMixtures R-package includes a set of functions to analyze, visualize, and organize measured chemical concentration data as it relates to chemical mixtures. ToxMixtures combines outputs from the R-package toxEval with
open access sources on molecular biology to provide information on potential biological effects of chemicals detected in environmental matrices. To use ToxMixtures, the user wi