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Data-base development for water-quality modeling of the Patuxent River basin, Maryland

Open-File Report 87-379
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https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr87379

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Abstract

Procedures and rationale used to develop a data base and data management system for the Patuxent Watershed Nonpoint Source Water Quality Monitoring and Modeling Program of the Maryland Department of the Environment and the U.S. Geological Survey are described. A detailed data base and data management system has been developed to facilitate modeling of the watershed for water quality planning purposes; statistical analysis; plotting of meteorologic, hydrologic and water quality data; and geographic data analysis. The system is Maryland 's prototype for development of a basinwide water quality management program. A key step in the program is to build a calibrated and verified water quality model of the basin using the Hydrological Simulation Program--FORTRAN (HSPF) hydrologic model, which has been used extensively in large-scale basin modeling. The compilation of the substantial existing data base for preliminary calibration of the basin model, including meteorologic, hydrologic, and water quality data from federal and state data bases and a geographic information system containing digital land use and soils data is described. The data base development is significant in its application of an integrated, uniform approach to data base management and modeling. (Lantz-PTT)

Suggested Citation

Fisher, G.T., Summers, R., 1987, Data-base development for water-quality modeling of the Patuxent River basin, Maryland: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 87-379, 18 p. :maps ;28 cm., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr87379.

ISSN: 2331-1258 (online)

Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Data-base development for water-quality modeling of the Patuxent River basin, Maryland
Series title Open-File Report
Series number 87-379
DOI 10.3133/ofr87379
Year Published 1987
Language ENGLISH
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey,
Description 18 p. :maps ;28 cm.
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