Hydrology Links Page

Welcome to our Hydrology Links page that includes references to many river-related sites.

We hope this newly formatted listing helps you more easily find the weather information you are looking for.

If you would like to recommend a site for inclusion, please let us know and we'll consider it.

If you find that a site doesn't work properly or that a link has become outdated, please let us know that as well. We'll update it promptly.

Until then, happy "surfing"!

Mike & Barbara (How the Weatherworks educators)

Hard Bargain Farm
http://www.hardbargainfarm.org/
Hard Bargain Farm is a 330-acre working farm with facilities for meetings and conferences. The Farm also offers a variety of day and overnight educational field trips that provide children with an opportunity to learn about farm life and the history of the Potomac River and its natural environment. There are also kid's and teacher's resource pages.

Mississippi River - 1993 -97 Flood Information
http://www.greatriver.com/FLOOD.htm
Information and statistics about recent flooding on the Mississippi River.

Mississippi River - General Information
http://www.greatriver.com/tribs.htm
Information about the Mississippi and its tributary system.

NASA - Global Hydrology and Climate Center
http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/
Global Satellite Imagery Server from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center - Huntsville, AL.

NASA - Mississippi River Flooding - 1993
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/imagewall/LandSat/mississippi.html
Using the LandSat Thematic Mapper^TM instrument, NASA has produced views showing the Mississippi River in and out of flooding. False color enhancements allow scientists to determine the state of vegetative health, seasonal changes, and general land use variations.

NOAA/NWS - Field Offices
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/er/box/NWSpages.html
If you want to get to a National Weather Service Office's home page, try this listing; local rainfall and river stage information.

NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL)
http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/
This site keys on the bathymetry, hydrology, temperatures, currents, and ice associated with the Great Lakes. Includes links to other Great Lakes sites.

NOAA/NWS - Interactive Page
http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/graphicsversion/main.html
Current flash flood and river flood warnings, forecast weather tables, and much more.

NOAA/NWS - Selected Temperature and Precipitation Tables
http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/us/tempprecip.html
Yesterday's observed temperature and precipitation and the two day forecast for more than 100 U.S. cities. Although the data is more extensive than that found in many newspapers, it is difficult to read because of non-uniform formatting.

NOAA/NWS - National Centers for Environmental Prediction
http://www.ncep.noaa.gov/
Links to NHC, NSSFC/SPC, Climate Prediction Center, Hydrological Prediction Center, and more. Surface weather maps are at http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/html/fcst2.html. You will need to click on the surface weather maps link and then the forwarding link to reach the actual surface weather map page.

Potomac River Adventure
http://www.weta.org/potomac/learning/fieldtrips/index.html
WETA-TV (PBS) and eight Washington, DC area high schools have gone on a series of explorations to study the Potomac River and its tributaries. These activities are part of Potomac Adventure, Year Two: Sharing the Adventure, now a virtual field study program.

USGS - Real Time Water Data
http://water.usgs.gov/realtime.html
Maps and data tables which describe and define water flow and water levels in rivers, streams, lakes, and other inland water bodies.

USGS - "A Century of Floods"
http://www.crcwater.org/issues10/20000511usgsfloodsheet.html
A summary of a USGS report that details 100 years of flood events.

WSI Corporation - WEATHER RADAR
http://www.intellicast.com/LocalWeather/World/UnitedStates/Radar/
Great United States radar image. Click anywhere on the map and it will take you to that area's local radar display!! Other weather information, as well, including Doppler radar velocity maps.

This page was updated on September 13, 2001.

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