Hydrologic Engineering Methods For Water Resources Development V2 Hydrologic Data Management

The volume is part of a 12-volume report entitled, 'Hydrologic Engineering Methods for Water Resources Development', prepared by The Hydrologic Engineering Center as part of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' participation in the International Hydrological Decade. Volume 2 describes methods and procedures for managing hydrologic data in a systematic manner, techniques for estimating missing portions of hydrologic records, and techniques for generating synthetic hydrologic data. A generalized computer program description, 'Monthly Streamflow Simulation', is included as part of this volume. This program will analyze monthly hydrologic data at a number of interrelated stations, generate sequences of hypothetical hydrologic data, and reconstitute missing hydrologic data on the basis of concurrent data observed at other locations. (Author).

Water resources planning at the federal level is comprehensive multi-purpose multi-objective planning. The increasing complexity of issues, planning alternatives, and evaluation criteria have spawned an ever growing need for increased data and associated analysis procedures. The increased number of such models, both demanding and generating large amounts of data, have stimulated awareness of the need for planning oriented data management systems. This paper describes recent activities of the Corps of Engineers Hydrologic Engineering Center in data management for water resources planning studies.