Water Resources

It provide access to water-resources data collected at approximately 1.5 million sites in all 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Online access to this data is organized around the categories.

Using USGS elevation data to visualize stunning views of the flow of water through rivers and floodplains.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's database on water.

These datasets are produced by the USGS and contain data on surface water within the United States.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's STORET Data Warehouse has water related data relevant to biological, habitat, and physical/chemical water research.

This dataset is the result of a collaboration between the USGS, the EPA, and the National Water Quality Monitoring Council with data collected from state, federal, local, and tribal organizations.

This is a collection of precipitation and streamflow data from small agricultural watersheds in the United States. This national archive of variable time-series readings for precipitation and runoff contains sufficient detail to reconstruct storm hydrographs and hyetographs. There are currently about 16,600 station years of data stored in the data base. Watersheds used as study areas range from .2 hectare (0.5 acres) to 12,400 square kilometers (4,786 square miles).

A predictive indicator of the surface water available in a basin compared to historic supply. Index from the USDA's Natural Resource Conservation Service

P. J. Ruess et al. have developed annual, county-level estimates of irrigation water use for 20 crop groups. The calculations draw on water use data from the US Geological Survey, as well as high-resolution data on crop locations, climate, and more.

Provides free, easily accessible field-scale data (satellite-base) about water consumption by crops and other vegetation in the western United States..
Evapotranspiration (ET) = Evaporation + Transpiration.
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A NOAA portal site for the various NOAA dataset including Land-Based Station, Satellite, Radar, Model Weather Balloon, etc.

This site provides a reference list of nationally funded data systems that have a relationship to environmental public health. This list highlights the major data systems with a national scope.

The site provides free access to NCDC's archive of global historical weather and climate data in addition to station history information. These data include quality controlled daily, monthly, seasonal, and yearly measurements of temperature, precipitation, wind, and degree days as well as radar data and 30-year Climate Normals.

Data and other content produced through a partnership between the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Tracker created by Western Regional Climate Center, a federal/state interconnected center.

NIDIS is a multi-agency partnership that coordinates drought monitoring, forecasting, planning, and information at national, state, and local levels across the country.

A StoryMap project with various maps created from the US Drought Monitor data.

Environmental-related datasets described and linked by an OSU agricultural economist.

Blog of Datasets for Development Economists.