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The USGS Water Resources Mission Area provides water information that is fundamental to national and local economic well-being, protection of life and property, and effective management of the Nation’s water resources. Below, find software for a wide range of water resources research and management questions.

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MODFLOW

Example visualization of MODFLOW output.

The internationally recognized USGS modular hydrologic model

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StreamStats

PROSPER in StreamStats screenshot

Streamflow statistics and spatial analysis tools for water-resources applications

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Frequently Used Software

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SAS: Software Application for SMASH (Spectral Mixture Analysis for Surveillance of Harmful Algal Blooms)

The Software Application for SMASH (Spectral Mixture Analysis for Surveillance of Harmful Algal Blooms), or SAS for short, is an application to facilitate mapping of potentially harmful algal blooms in reservoirs, rivers, and lakes from remotely sensed data. More specifically, SAS is designed to exploit the detailed observations of reflectance available within a hyperspectral image to infer which
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Surface Velocity Tools (SurfVelTools)

SurfVelTools is a Python application and user interface for computing parameters associated with the Probability Concept method (Fulton and others, in review) parameters using velocity profile data collected in the stationing where the maximum in-channel velocity occurs. SurfVelTools will also compute streamflow (discharge) for a given Probability Concept result given a known cross-sectional area,
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MODFLOW 6: USGS Modular Hydrologic Model

MODFLOW is a popular open-source groundwater flow model distributed by the U.S. Geological Survey. 

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Version 2.3.0 of Coupled Ground-Water and Surface-Water Flow Model Based on the Integration of the Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System (PRMS) and the Modular Ground-Water Flow Model

GSFLOW is a coupled Groundwater and Surface-Water Flow model based on the integration of the U.S. Geological Survey Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System (PRMS; Markstrom and others, 2015) and the U.S. Geological Survey Modular Groundwater Flow Model (MODFLOW-2005, Harbaugh, 2005; MODFLOW-NWT, Niswonger and others, 2011). In addition to the basic PRMS and MODFLOW simulation methods, several additio
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Water Resources Mission Area

DataRetrieval.jl

DataRetrieval.jl is a Julia alternative to the R dataRetrieval package for obtaining USGS water data directly from web services.
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precompute

The R package precompute is used to perform periodic computations to set up data for loading and rendering in Shiny applications. These computations typically take too long to conduct on the fly, which is why they are performed with some frequency using this package.
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fluvial-particle, U.S. Geological Survey software release

This Python package provides functions to simulate advection and dispersion of numerical particles using a lagrangian particle-tracking algorithm for 2 and 3-dimensionl hydraulic simulation results. Users may customize particle subclasses to provide custom particle classes. For example, the drift of larval fish, by creating classes to add behavior to particles. (McDonald and Nelson, 2021).
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WREG: Weighted Least Squares Regression for Streamflow Frequency Statistics

Software package to support regression-based regionalization of streamflow frequency statistics that follow a log-Pearson type III distribution.
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GSFLOW: Coupled Groundwater and Surface-Water Flow Model

Groundwater and Surface-water FLOW (GSFLOW) was developed to simulate coupled groundwater and surface-water resources. The model is based on the integration of the U.S. Geological Survey Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System (PRMS) and the U.S. Geological Survey Modular Groundwater Flow Model (MODFLOW).

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Toolbox for River Velocimetry using Images from Aircraft (TRiVIA)

# TRiVIA Toolbox for River Velocimetry using Images from Aircraft: TRiVIA ## Description The Toolbox for River Velocimetry using Images from Aircraft, or TRiVIA for short, is an application to facilitate estimation of surface flow velocities in river channels from various types of remotely sensed data acquired with a nadir-viewing geometry (i.e., looking straight down). Spatially distributed info
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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
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Water Resources Mission Area, Upper Midwest Water Science Center

mainstems workflow: HU12 NHDPlusV2 NHDPlus HiRes Matching

HU12 NHDPlusV2 NHDPlus HiRes Matching The logic encoded in this repository is documented in: Blodgett, D., Johnson, J. M., Sondheim, M., Wieczorek, M., Frazier, N. (2021). Mainstems: A logical data model implementing mainstem and drainage basin feature types based on WaterML2 Part 3: HY Features concepts. Environmental Modelling and Software, 135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104927 Th
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Water Resources Mission Area