Water Budget Science in Oklahoma and Texas
A water budget is an accounting of hydrologic components of the water cycle, transfers between the components, and their relative contributions within a water system. Water budgets help define how much water is available, how much water is used, where the water comes from, and at what rate water is replenished or consumed. In its simplest form, a water budget defines the amount of water entering and leaving a water system. The USGS Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center (OTWSC) provides data and information about water-budget components that are needed to manage water resources in Texas. Visit the links below for more information on our data and science.
Basic components of water budgets are precipitation, evapotranspiration, surface-water and groundwater flow into and out of the watershed or aquifer, change in surface-water and groundwater storage, and human withdrawals and interbasin transfers.
WATER BUDGET SCIENCE CAPABILITIES
OTWSC has expertise in water budget science applications, including, but not limited to:
- Modeling analysis to estimate water-budget components under different climate and water-use scenarios
- Quanitifying potential changes in hydrologic budgets due to vegetative land-cover changes at a watershed scale.
- Estimating groundwater recharge using statistical regression techniques
- Monitoring evapotranspiration rates to evaluate how changes in land cover and soil moisture content may change water budgets
- Determining groundwater sources, recharge, discharge, and mixing zones
- Collecting streamflow data.
CURRENT WATER BUDGET SCIENCE
Coastal Lowlands Regional Groundwater Availability Study (CLAS)
Evapotranspiration Monitoring at Huisache Removal Site
Hydrogeologic Atlas for Fort Bliss
Hydrogeologic Framework of Gaines, Terry, and Yoakum Counties
Hydrologic Monitoring of Medina and Diversion Lakes, San Antonio Area
Projects related to water budgets are listed below.
Data and tools related to water budgets are listed below.
Publications related to water budgets are listed below.
Statistical analyses of hydrologic system components and simulation of Edwards aquifer water-level response to rainfall using transfer-function models, San Antonio region, Texas
Diffuse-flow conceptualization and simulation of the Edwards aquifer, San Antonio region, Texas
Conceptualization and simulation of the Edwards aquifer, San Antonio region, Texas
Results of streamflow gain-loss studies in Texas, with emphasis on gains from and losses to major and minor aquifers, Texas, 2000
Simulation of flow and effects of best-management practices in the upper Seco Creek basin, south-central Texas, 1991-98
Water budget for the Nueces Estuary, Texas, May-October 1998
Computer-model analysis of ground-water flow and simulated effects of contaminant remediation at Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant, Dallas, Texas
Hydrogeology, hydrologic budget, and water chemistry of the Medina Lake area, Texas
Hydrogeology and ground-water flow in the Edwards-Trinity aquifer-system, west-central, Texas
Estimated depth to the water table and estimated rate of recharge in outcrops of the Chicot and Evangeline aquifers near Houston, Texas
Geology and hydrology of the Edwards Aquifer in the San Antonio area, Texas
Water-budget studies of lower Mesilla Valley and El Paso Valley, El Paso County, Texas
A water budget is an accounting of hydrologic components of the water cycle, transfers between the components, and their relative contributions within a water system. Water budgets help define how much water is available, how much water is used, where the water comes from, and at what rate water is replenished or consumed. In its simplest form, a water budget defines the amount of water entering and leaving a water system. The USGS Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center (OTWSC) provides data and information about water-budget components that are needed to manage water resources in Texas. Visit the links below for more information on our data and science.
Basic components of water budgets are precipitation, evapotranspiration, surface-water and groundwater flow into and out of the watershed or aquifer, change in surface-water and groundwater storage, and human withdrawals and interbasin transfers.
WATER BUDGET SCIENCE CAPABILITIES
OTWSC has expertise in water budget science applications, including, but not limited to:
- Modeling analysis to estimate water-budget components under different climate and water-use scenarios
- Quanitifying potential changes in hydrologic budgets due to vegetative land-cover changes at a watershed scale.
- Estimating groundwater recharge using statistical regression techniques
- Monitoring evapotranspiration rates to evaluate how changes in land cover and soil moisture content may change water budgets
- Determining groundwater sources, recharge, discharge, and mixing zones
- Collecting streamflow data.
CURRENT WATER BUDGET SCIENCE
Coastal Lowlands Regional Groundwater Availability Study (CLAS)
Evapotranspiration Monitoring at Huisache Removal Site
Hydrogeologic Atlas for Fort Bliss
Hydrogeologic Framework of Gaines, Terry, and Yoakum Counties
Hydrologic Monitoring of Medina and Diversion Lakes, San Antonio Area
Projects related to water budgets are listed below.
Data and tools related to water budgets are listed below.
Publications related to water budgets are listed below.