Watershed Management and Restoration
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, watershed management is the continuous process of creating and implementing plans, programs, and projects with partners using a multi-disciplinary and adaptive approach to sustain and enhance natural watersheds. Resources available in this sub-theme include watershed management technical reports, tools to assess flows in ecosystems, and other resources that support sustainable watershed management and restoration.
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Watershed Management and Restoration Resources
Significant River Flood Outlook
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
This Flood Outlook is intended to provide a general outlook for significant river flooding.Read more
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United StatesNorth AmericaCoastal County Snapshots- Flood Exposure
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September 14, 2016National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
This online tool provides managers and citizens with easy-to-understand charts and graphs that describe complex coastal data. Users select a county of interest and the website does the rest, creating a helpful educational tool for governing bodies and citizen groups. Current snapshot topics include...Read more
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United StatesNorth AmericaIntegrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping is defined as the practice of planning, acquiring, integrating, and disseminating ocean and coastal geospatial data and derivative products in a manner that permits easy access to and use by the greatest range of users.Read more
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United StatesNorth AmericaElectronic Navigational Charts
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
ENC Direct to GIS allows users to display, query, and download all available base editions of NOAA ENC® data in a variety of GIS/CAD formats, using Internet mapping service technology. Nautical chart features contained within a NOAA ENC provide a detailed representation of the U.S. coastal and...Read more
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United StatesNorth AmericaNOAA Shoreline Data
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The NOAA Shoreline Data Explorer provides high-resolution digital shoreline from multi-temporal surveys of our nation's coastline. It provides the following capabilities: view available shoreline project boundaries; view vector shoreline data; view and download FGDC compliant metadata; make...Read more
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United StatesNorth AmericaInternational Center for Integrated Water Resouces, ICIWaRM's Regional Analysis of Frequency Tool (ICI-RAFT)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The purpose of ICI-RAFT is to estimate the frequency/intensity of a rainfall event of a particular duration using rainfall observations on the ground. The goal is to be able to answer such questions as: what is the probability that the current drought will end in X months? How long of a drought...Read more
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United StatesNorth AmericaUSACE Hydrologic Engineering Center
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The Hydrologic Engineering Center (HEC), an organization within the Institute for Water Resources, is the designated Center of Expertise for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the technical areas of surface and groundwater hydrology, river hydraulics and sediment transport, hydrologic statistics...Read more
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United StatesNorth Americadata.gov
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more. "Flood" datasets: http://goo.gl/MtFCYx; "Sea Level Rise" datasets: https://goo.gl/XXQ6qn; "water" datasets: http://goo.gl/...Read more
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United StatesNorth AmericaDon't see what you're looking for? You can search USWP member sites, request a resource, or contact the USWP.