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WR304 Principles of Watershed Management

Spring 2007


Introduction to Morgan Library:

How to find CLIMATE DATA

  • NCDC Climate Resources (from the National Climatic Data Center NOAA website)
    NOTE: Access to data on this Website is free only when you connect through a University computer or account (from a computer with a .edu IP address). If you connect from another Internet Service Provider, you will be asked to pay for the data files.

  • PDF handout by librarians for NCDC Climate Resources
    Copy of the handout of NCDC website directions

  • PDF handout on Excel for WR304 by Stephanie Kampf
    Copy of the handout of Excel Tutorial by Stephanie Kampf

  • Climatic atlas of the United States. C 55.22:C 61/1983 A copy is on reserve, other copies are in the stacks if they have not been checked out.

How to find STREAM FLOW DATA

How to find INTERNATIONAL CITY DATA

  • Locate an international city using the TIMES ATLAS OF THE WORLD (Plate 3).
    Copies of this atlas are located in the Map/Atlas Collection on the First Floor, South.

  • Use the NCDC Website for precipitation data for your international city.

How to find SOIL SURVEY INFORMATION

  • You must use the print copies of the Soil Survey for your home county. These are located in the Documents collection (A57.38:) on the Fourth Floor, South Wing. Records for many of these soil surveys can be located in SAGE, but some older ones do not have records in SAGE.
  • Most of the surveys are shelved alphabetically by County at the above call number. Surveys that were published before the 1960's are under different call numbers, so check SAGE or the list of Published Soil Surveys located at the Information Desk, if you do not find your county. Not all counties in the United States have been surveyed so you may not find yours - just use one from a close-by county.
  • Some of the Colorado Soil Surveys are available on the Web. The Colorado surveys have been cataloged in the CSU Library Catalog (Sage). You may search SAGE by keyword and put in soil survey then search location: web.

Web Resources