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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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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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Water Resources Mission Area

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

ModelMuse Version 5.1.1

This version of ModelMuse fixes a serious bug in ModelMuse version 5.1.
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Water Resources Mission Area

ModelMuse Version 5.1: Software Release

ModelMuse version 5.1 updates version 5.0 by adding support for the groundwater transport process and time series files in MODFLOW 6.
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Water Resources Mission Area

HASP

The Hydrologic Analysis Package (HASP) can retrieve groundwater level and groundwater quality data, aggregate these data, plot them, and generate basic statistics. One of the benefits of HASP is its ability to aggregate two time-series of data into one record and generate statistics and graphics on hat record. By merging two data sets together, users can view and manipulate a much longer record o
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Water Resources Mission Area

GW/SW-MST: A Groundwater/Surface-Water Method Selection Tool

The Groundwater/Surface-Water Method Selection Tool (GW/SW-MST) is a spreadsheet-based tool to help practitioners identify methods for use in groundwater/surface-water (GW/SW) exchange and hyporheic studies. GW/SW exchange and hyporheic processes are topics receiving increasing attention from the hydrologic community. Hydraulic, chemical, temperature, geophysical, and remote sensing methods are u
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Water Resources Mission Area

MODFLOW-NWT: A Newton Formulation for MODFLOW-2005

MODFLOW-NWT is a Newton-Raphson formulation for MODFLOW-2005 to improve solution of unconfined groundwater-flow problems. MODFLOW-NWT is a standalone program that is intended for solving problems involving drying and rewetting nonlinearities of the unconfined groundwater-flow equation.

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Water Resources Mission Area

sbtools: USGS ScienceBase Tools

Tools for interacting with U.S. Geological Survey ScienceBase https://www.sciencebase.gov interfaces. ScienceBase is a data cataloging and collaborative data management platform. Functions included for querying ScienceBase, and creating and fetching datasets.
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Water Resources Mission Area

Model Viewer for MODFLOW 6 Graphical User Interface 1.0.0 Software Release

Model Viewer, a graphical user interface for three-dimensional visualization of ground-water results, has been updated to support reading the results from the U.S. Geological Survey’s MODFLOW 6 program. Two examples are included. The example ex-gwf-csub-p04 illustrates the use of the new DIS6 grid format. The second example ex-gwf-disvmesh demonstrates the ability to load and display the DISV6
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Water Resources Mission Area

GSFLOW: Coupled Groundwater and Surface-Water Flow Model, version 2.2.1

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