| Abstract: | As part of numerous cooperative studies investigating rainfall and streamflow during 1991-2009 with the Texas Department of Transportation and Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) published about 20 reports describing either historical streamflow conditions (hydrologic history) in Texas or the results of studies involving regional rainfall and streamflow statistics (regionalization studies). Both types of studies are widely used in engineering and scientific applications. Long-term rainfall and streamflow records are essential for deriving reliable rainfall and streamflow statistics. Whereas the need for such records is regionwide, rainfall and streamflow records are site-specific. The USGS has pioneered ways to mathematically transfer site-specific rainfall and streamflow information to provide regional statistical models. In addition to publishing reports describing historical hydrologic data at many monitored locations throughout Texas, the USGS has published reports describing regional models for estimating rainfall and streamflow statistics at unmonitored locations. The primary objectives of these regionalization studies were to provide historical perspectives of streamflow conditions in Texas or estimates of specific statistics of rainfall or streamflow. Statistics such as 6-hour, 1-percent annual exceedance rainfall (a large storm) or 2-percent annual exceedance streamflow (a substantial flood) can be estimated for locations lacking sufficient direct observations of rainfall and streamflow data. This fact sheet provides a brief synopsis of 12 recent (2001-09) USGS hydrologic history and regionalization studies in Texas organized thematically and chronologically. |
| Genre: | USGS Numbered Series |
| ProdID: | 98633 |
| Citation Author: | Asquith, William H. |
| Citation Contributing Office: | Texas Water Science Center |
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| Citation Phsyical Description: | 2 p. |
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| Citation Public Comments: | In cooperation with the Texas Department of Transportation and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality |
| Citation Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey |
| Citation Series: | Fact Sheet |
| Citation Series Code: | FS |
| Citation Series Number: | 2010-3063 |
| Citation Search Results Text: | Recent (2001-09) hydrologic history and regionalization studies in Texas-Statistical characterization of storms, floods, and rainfall-runoff relations; 2010; FS; 2010-3063; Asquith, William H. |
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| Citation Year: | 2010 |
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| Text: | Recent (2001-09) hydrologic history and regionalization studies in Texas-Statistical characterization of storms, floods, and rainfall-runoff relations; 2010; FS; 2010-3063; Asquith, William H. |
| URL (THUMBNAIL): | http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/thumbnails/fs_2010_3063.jpg |
| URL (INDEX PAGE): | http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2010/3063/ |
| Date Other: | Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:00 -0500 |
| Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey |
