ACRONYMS, PROGRAMS AND MODELS, CONSTANTS, and TIME ABBREVIATIONS

  1. ACRONYMS
  2. PROGRAMS AND MODELS
  3. SOME CONSTANTS
  4. TIME ABBREVIATIONS
  1. ACRONYMS

    30Q20 The average streamflow over a 30-day period which is equalled/exceeded on average once in every 20 yrs.
    3GM Three-Generation Modeling
    7Q20 see 30Q20 (7-day period)
    AASHTO American Association of State Highways and Transportation
    AAT Arc Attribute Table
    ABF Average Base Flow
    ADF Average Diurnal Flow
    ADT Average Daily Traffic
    AES Atmospheric Environment Services (Canada)
    AGU American Geophysical Union
    Al Aluminum
    AM/FM Automated Mapping/Facilities Management
    AM/FM/GIS Automated Mapping/Facilities Management/Geographic Information System
    AMC Antecedent Moisture Conditions
    Amer. American
    AML Arc Macro Language
    AMS Annual Maximum Series
    ANN Artificial Neural Network
    ANOVA a two-way analysis of variance
    ANSI Area of Natural Significant Interest/American National Standards Institute
    AOC Area of Concern
    ARCS Assessment and Remediation of Contaminated Sediment
    ARS Agricultural Research Service
    As Arsenic
    ASAE American Society of Agricultural Engineers
    ASCE American Society of Civil Engineers
    ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
    ASEE American Society of Engineering Education
    Assoc. Association
    ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials
    ATC Artificial Trapezoidal Channel
    AVM Acoustic Velocity Meter
    AWMA Air and Waste Management Association
    AWRA American Water Resources Association
    AWWA American Waterworks Association
    BACT Best Available Control Technology
    BBS Bulletin Board System
    BES Bureau of Environmental Services
    BHD alpha-Benzene Hexachloride
    BMM Best Management Model
    BMP Best Management Practice
    BOD Biological Oxygen Demand
    BSMP Better Stormwater Management Practice
    Bull. Bulletin
    C of A Certificate of Approval
    ca Circa, about, approximately
    CAD Computer Aided Design/ Drafting
    CADD Computer Aided Design and Drafting
    CAE Computer Aided Engineering
    CAM Computer Aided Mapping
    Can. Canadian
    CAPPI Constant Altitude Precipitation Index maps
    CASE Computer Aided Software Engineering
    CBOD Carbonaceous Biochemical Oxygen Demand
    Cd Cadmium
    CDF Centralized Detention Facility
    CDF Cumulative Density Function
    CDF Cumulative probability Density Function
    CDF Cumulative Distribution Function
    Cdn Canadian currency
    CDM Camp, Dresser and McKee -- a consulting engineering firm
    CDN$/C$ Canadian dollars
    CDROM Compact Disk Read Only Memory
    CEAM Center for Exposure Assessment Modeling
    CEPA Canadian Environmental Protection Act
    CERF Civil Engineering Research Foundation
    CF Continuous Flow
    CFA Consolidated Frequency Analysis
    CFF Confined Filtration Facility
    CFS/cfs Cubic Feet per Second -
    1 cfs = 4.719x10-4m3/s
    CGM A Graphic File Format
    CG&S CH2M Gore & Storrie (a consulting engineering firm)
    Chap. Chapter
    CH2M HILL a consulting engineering firm
    CHy WMO Commission for Hydrology
    CIESIN Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network
    Cl Chlorine /Chloride
    Class EA Class Environmental Assessment
    CMC Central Microcomputer Controller
    CN Curve Number in SCS method
    COD Chemical Oxygen Demand
    COE US Army Corps of Engineers
    COG Council of Governments
    COI Cone Of Influence
    COV Coefficient of Variation
    COWAR Commitee on Water Research
    CP Concrete Paver
    CPU Central Processing Unit
    Cr Chromium
    CS Combined Sewer
    CSCE Canadian Society of Civil Engineers
    CSO Combined Sewer Overflow
    CSP Corrugated Steel Pipe
    CSPI Corrugated Steel Pipe Institute
    CSS Combined Sewer Shed
    CST Central Standard Time
    CSTR Constantly Stirred Tank Reactor
    CT-DW Common Trench-Dividing Wall
    CTS Common Trench-Separate system
    Cu Copper
    C.U.Q. Communaute Urbaine de Québec
    CUR Conceptual Urban Runoff
    CWA Clean Water Act (U.S.)
    CWQG Canadian Water Quality Guidelines
    CWRA Canadian Water Resources Association
    CWWTP Central Wastewater Treatment Plant
    DBMS DataBase Management System
    DCIA Directly Connected Impervious Area
    DDE Dynamic Data Exchange
    DEC Department of Environmental Conservation
    DEIS Draft Environmental Impact Statement
    DEM Digital Elevation Model (USGS q.v.)
    DEP Department of Environmental Protection
    Dept. Department
    DEQ Department of Environmental Quality
    DER Department of Environmental Resources
    DFO Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans
    DiCB DiChloroBenzene
    DHI Danish Hydraulic Institute
    DHS Downhill Simplex
    DLG Digital Line Graphs (USGS q.v.)
    DNR Department of Natural Resources
    DNRC Department of Natural Resources and Conservation
    DNREC Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control
    DO Dissolved Oxygen
    DOB Digital Orthophoto Basemeap
    DOC Department of Conservation
    DOE US Department of Energy
    DOQ Digital Orthophoto Quads (USGS q.v.)
    DOS Disk Operating System
    DOSD Division of Sewerage and Drainage
    DP Depression Storage
    DPD Analytical method for determining chlorine residual utilizing the reagent DPD
    DPD n-diethyl-e-phenylenediamine
    DRG Digital Raster Graphics (USGS q.v.)
    DRH Direct Runoff Hydrographs
    DRSS Detroit Regional Sewer System
    DS Dissolved Solids
    DSS Decision Support System
    DTM Double Trace Moments
    DVF Digital Visual Fortran
    DWF Dry Weather Flow
    DWSD Detroit Water and Sewerage Department
    DXF Drawing Exchange File
    E. coli. Escherichia coli.
    EA Environmental Assessment
    EA Error Analysis
    EAAC Environmental Asessment Advisory Committee
    EAs Exposure Assessments
    EBB Electronic Bulletin Board
    ECD Electron Capture Detector
    ECP Erosion Control Plan
    EDF Energy Density Flux
    EDP Extended Detention Pond
    EF Evaluation Function
    EIA Effective Impervious Area
    EIC Engineering Institute of Canada
    EIS Environmental Impact Statement
    EMAIL Electronic Mail
    EMAP Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program
    EMC Event Mean Concentration
    EMT Event Mean Temperature
    EMDP Environmental Master Drainage Plan
    Eng'rg Engineering
    EPA Environmental Protection Agency (U.S.)
    EPRI Energy Production Research Institute
    EPS Environmental Protection Service
    ERL Environmental Research Laboratory
    ESA Environmentally Sensitive Area
    ESRI Environmental Systems Research Institute
    EST Eastern Standard Time
    ET Evapotranspiration
    EV Extreme Value
    FA Frequency Analysis
    FAO Food and Agriculture Organization (of the UN)
    FC Fecal Coliform
    FCC Fecal Coliform Concentration
    FDRP Flood Damage Reduction Program
    Fe Iron
    FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency
    FERC Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
    FHWA Federal Highway Administration
    FL Fuzzy Logic
    FM Facilities Management
    FS Fecal Stretococci
    FS Filterable Solids
    ft-NGVD feet referenced to NGVD (q.v.)
    FT Fourier Transform
    FTP File Transfer Protocol, an Internet utility
    FTU Formazin Turbidity Unit
    FWS Free Water Surface
    FY Fiscal Year
    GBWWTP Gold Bar Wastewater Treatment Plant, Edmonton
    GC Gas Chromatography
    GC/MS Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry
    GDD Growing Degree Days
    GDS Graphic Data System
    GEWEX Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment
    GFAA Graphite-Furnace Atomic Absorption
    GI Growth Index
    GIS Geographic Information System
    GLIN Great Lakes Information Network
    GPC Global Predictive Control
    gpcd Gallons per capita per day
    GPM/gpm Gallons Per Minute
    GPS Global Positioning System
    GRCA Grand River Conservation Authority, Ontario
    GRU Grouped Response Unit
    GUI Graphical User Interface
    GWI Ground Water Infiltration
    ha Hectares
    HCB Hexachlorobenzene
    HEC Hydrologic Engineering Center (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)
    Hg Mercury
    HG Hydraulic Grade
    HGF Hydraulic Gradeline Factor
    HGL Hydraulic Gradient Line
    HISD High-Intensity Short-Duration
    HPC Heterotrophic Plate Count
    HQ Headquarters
    HRT Hydraulic Retention Time
    HRU Homogeneous Response Unit
    HSI Habitat Suitability Indices
    HSIA Hydraulically Significant Imper-vious Area
    HWL High Water Level
    HWY Highway
    I/I Infiltration/Inflow
    I/O Input/Output
    IA Initial Abstraction
    IAG Interagency Agreement
    IAHR International Association for Hydraulic Research
    IAHS International Association of Hydrological Sciences
    IAMAP International Asociation of Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics
    IAWPRC International Association for Water Pollution Research and Control
    IAWQ International Association on Water Quality
    IBM International Business Machines
    ICAP Inductively Coupled Argon Plasma
    ICI Industrial, Commercial and Institutional
    ICID International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage
    ID Identification; Identification number
    IDF Intensity-Duration-Frequency curves
    IDS Impervious Depression Storage
    IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
    IETD Inter-Event Time Definition
    IFIM Instream Flow Incremental Methodology
    IHD International Hydrological Decade
    IHP International Hydrological Program
    IIHR Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research
    IJC International Joint Commission
    IMP Imperviousness
    IN Indicated Number
    INAA Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis
    INRS-Eau Institut National De La Recher-che Scientifique -Eau (see NWRI)
    Inst. Institute
    Int. International
    IP Internet Protocol
    IRC Interflow Recession Parameter
    ISE Integral Square Error
    ISS In-System Storage
    IUGS International Union of Geological Sciences
    IUH Instantaneous Unit Hydrograph
    IWC Industrial Waste Control
    IWRA International Water Resources Association
    J. Journal
    JTU Jackson Turbidity Unit
    KAI Kuck and Associates
    l Litre
    LAER Lowest Achievable Emission Rate
    LAN Local Area Network
    LANDSAT Satellite Imagery for Geograph-ical Information
    LBIS Land Based Information System
    LC50 Lethal Concentration to 50% of exposed organisms
    LDMI Long-Duration Moderate Intensity
    LMIS Lockheed Martin Information System
    lpcd Liters per Capita per Day
    LPD/lpd Liters per Day
    LPM/lpm Liters Per Minute
    LPS/lps Liters Per Second
    LRC Local Reactive Control
    LSZN Lower Soil Zone Nominal Storage
    LWL Low Water Level
    m Metres
    m3 Cubic Metres
    MA Municipal Aquifer
    mcf Million Cubic Feet
    MCLs Maximum Concentration Levels
    MDEQ Michigan Dept. of Environmental Quality
    MDP Master Drainage Plan
    MEA Municipal Engineers Association
    MEF Ministère de l'Environnement et de la Faune
    Mg Magnesium
    MGD/mgd Million Gallons Per Day
    MH Maintenance Hatch (Manhole)
    MIMO Multiple Input-Multiple Output
    MINTEQA2 Metal Speciation for Equilibrium for Surface and Groundwater
    mi2 square miles
    MIPS Million Instruction Sets Per Second
    MISA Municipal/Industrial Strategy for Abatement (Canada)
    MIT Minimum InterEvent Time
    MLD/mld Million Liters per Day
    MLRA Major Land Resource Area
    MMI Man-Machine Interface
    Mn Manganese
    MOE Ministry of the Environment
    MOEE Ministry of Environment and Energy (Environment Ontario)
    MPN Most Probable Number
    MRI Mean Recurrence Interval
    MS Mass Spectrometry
    MSD Mass Spectrometry Detector
    MSL Mean Sea Level
    MSMP Master Stormwater Management Plan
    MSS Multi Spectral Scanner
    MTP Main Treatment Plant
    MWRA Massachusetts Water Resources Authority
    N Nitrogen
    Na Sodium
    NAPP National Aerial Photography Program
    NAQUADAT National Water Quality Data Base
    NAWDEX National Water Data Exchange
    NCDC National Climatic Data Center
    NDMA n-nitrosodimethylamine
    NGO Non-Governmental Organization
    NGVD National Geodetic Vertical Datum
    NH3 Ammonia
    NH3-N Ammonium Nitrogen
    Ni nickel
    NIMBY Not In My Backyard
    NITR nitrate plus nitrite
    NN Neural Networks
    NNN Nitrate/Nitrite Nitrogen
    No. Number
    NO3-N Nitrate, Nitrite
    NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
    NOD Nitrogenous Oxygen Demand
    NPD Nitrogen-Phosphorus Detector
    NPDES National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (U.S.)
    NPS Non-Point Source
    NRCS Natural Resources Conservation Service (U.S.)
    NTIS National Technical Information Service (U.S.)
    NTU Nephelometric turbidity unit
    NURP Nationwide Urban Runoff Program (U.S.)
    NWIS National Water Information System
    NWRI National Water Research Institute (Canada)
    NWS National Weather Service (U.S.)
    O&M Operation and Maintenance
    OARM Office of Administration and Resources Management (EPA)
    OCs Organic Chlorinated Pesticides
    ODBC Open Database Connectivity
    ODWO Ontario Drinking Water Objective
    OF Objective Function
    OGS Oil/Grit Separators
    OLE Object Linking and Embedding
    OM Organic Matter
    OMNR Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
    OP Organophosphorus
    O-P Ortho-phosphate
    ORD Office of Research and Development
    OSCTS On-Site Containment and Treatment System
    OSD On-Site Detention
    OST Office of Science and Technology (EPA)
    OSU Oregon State University
    OW Office of Water
    P Phosphorus
    p. Page
    PAH Polycyclic-Aromatic-Hydrocarbons; Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons
    PAP Porous Asphalt Pavement
    PAR Photosynthetically Active Radiation
    Pb Lead
    PC Personal Computer
    PCA Principal Component Analysis
    PCB Polychlorinated Biphenyl
    PCP Pollution Control Planning /Pollution Control Plant
    PCS Permit Compliance System
    PDE Partial Differential Equation
    PDF/pdf Probability Density Function
    PDM Probabilistic Dilution Model
    PDMS Probability Distribution Multifractal Scaling
    PDS Pervious Depression Storage
    PEL Probable Effect Level
    PET Potential Evapotranspiration
    PF Plug Flow
    pH Negative Log of Hydrogen Ion Concentration
    Ph.D. Doctor of Philosophy
    PHC Petroleum Hydrocarbons
    Phys. Physics
    PLC Programmable Logic Controller
    PLUARG Pollution from Land Use Activities Reference Group
    PO4 Ortho-phosphate
    POT Peak Over a Threshold
    pp Pages
    PP Permanent Pools
    PR Probabilistic Reasoning
    Proc. Proceedings
    PSD Power Spectral Density
    pub. Published
    PVC Poly Vinyl Chloride
    PWQM Provincial Water Quality Monitoring Network
    QA/QC Quality Assurance/Quality Control
    QAP Quality Assurance Plan
    R&D Research and Development
    R/LPOLY Right/Left Polygon
    RACT Reasonably Available Control Technology
    RAP Remedial Action Plan
    RBE RuleBase Engine
    RC Runoff Catchment
    RDBMS Relational Database Management System
    RDI Rainfall Derived Infiltration
    RDII/RDI&I/
    RDI/I Rainfall Dependent Inflow/Infiltration
    RDMS Relational Database Management System
    RE Relative Error
    RFA Rainfall Accumulation Map
    RM Rational Method
    ROW Right of Way
    RTC Real Time Control
    RTF Retention Treatment Facility
    RTU Remote Telemetry Unit
    SA Sensitivity Analysis
    SAMS Sewerage Analysis and Management System (MWRA q.v.)
    SC Soft Computing
    SCADA Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (system)
    SCAS Sewer Connection Application System
    SCC Soil Conservation Curves
    SCE Shuffled Complex
    SCOWAR Scientific Committee on Water Research
    SCS USDA (q.v.) Soil Conservation Service
    SDE Spatial Database Engine
    SEE Standard Error of Estimate
    SEI Software Environmental Institute (Carnegie Mellon University)
    SEK Swedish Krone
    SFAS Sewer Flow Analysis System
    SFO Stipulation and Final Order
    SFS Subsurface Flow System
    SHEF Standard Hydrometeorological Exchange Format
    SI Suitability Index
    SIC Standard Industrial Classification
    SIU Significant Industrial Users
    SLRT Sewer Level Remote Telemetry
    SO4 Sulphate
    Soc. Society
    SOCSDS Southeastern Oakland County Sewage Disposal System
    SOD Sediment Oxygen Demand
    SOPs Standard Operating Procedures
    SPAM Spatially Averaged Mean
    SPCSP Structural Plate Corrugated Steel Pipe
    SPDES State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
    SPM Storage Pumping Model
    SQL Structured Query Language
    SRP Soluble Reactive Phosphorus
    SRS Storm Relief Sewer
    SS Sanitary Sewer-Shed
    SS Subsurface Subcatchments
    SS Suspended Solids
    SSES Sewer System Evaluation Surveys
    SSMP Sewer System Master Plan
    SSO Sanitary Sewer Overflow
    STN Scientific and Technical Information
    STORET Storage and Retrieval of US Waterways Parametric Data
    STP Sewage Treatment Plant
    STS Synthetic Time Series
    SV State-Variable
    SWM Stormwater Management
    SWMPs Stormwater Management Plans/Practices
    SWPPP Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan
    SYMAP Synagraphic Mapping
    TBRG Tipping Bucket Rain/Runoff Gage
    TBT Time Between Tip
    TC Total carbon (incl. organic & inorganic)
    TDN Total Dissolved Nitrogen
    TDS Total Dissolved Solids
    TEL Threshold Effect Level
    TF Transfer Function
    THOD Theoretical Oxygen Demand
    TIC Total Inorganic Carbon
    TIN Triangulated Irregular Network
    TKN Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen
    TM Thematic Mapper
    TMDL Total Maximum Daily Load
    TN Total Nitrogen
    TN-Diss Total Nitrogen dissolved
    TN-Part Total Nitrogen Particulate
    TOC Total Organic Carbon
    TOD Total Oxygen Demand
    TP Total Phosphorus
    TPH Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons
    Trans. Transactions
    TS Time Series
    TSI Trophic State Indices
    TSM Time Series data Manager
    TSS Time Series Store
    TSS Total Suspended Solids
    TVS Total Volatile Solids
    U. University
    UAA Use Attainability Analysis
    UAB Univeristy of Alabama at Birmingham
    UBT Upper Bukit Timah, Singapore
    UN United Nations
    UNIX A general purpose time-sharing operating system. Trademark of Bell Laboratories.
    UPM Universal Process Modeling
    URL Uniform Resource Locator, an Internet identification system
    US $ United States dollars
    USACE United States Army Corps of Engineers
    USCS Unified Soil Classification System
    USDA United States Department of Agriculture
    USEPA United States Environmental Protection Agency
    USGPM US Gallons Per Minute
    USGS United States Geological Survey
    UST Underground Storage Tank
    USZN Upper Soil Zone Nominal Storage
    UTM Universal Transverse Mercator
    UV Ultra Violet
    UWMB Urban Watershed Management Branch (USEPA)
    UWIN Universities Water Information Network
    UZS Upper Zone Storage
    V Vanadium
    V-D Volume-Duration
    VDU Visual Display Unit
    VOC Volatile Organic Compound
    Vol. Volume
    VSS Volatile Suspended Sediment
    VTOC Volatile Toxic Organic Compounds
    WAN Wide Area Network
    WATSTORE National Water Data Storage and Retrieval System
    WDM Watershed Database Management
    WEF Water Environment Federation
    WES Waterways Experiment Station (COE q.v.)
    WIMP Windows, Icons, Menus, and Pointing Devices
    WIMS Wastewater Information Management System
    WMP Watershed Management Plans
    WMSS Watershed Management Support System
    WPCP Water Pollution Control Plant
    WQS Water Quality Standards
    WSEL Water Surface Elevation Level
    WSM Watershed Model
    WT Wavelet Transform
    WTP Water Treatment Plant
    WUA Weighted Usable Area
    WWF Wet Weather Flow
    WWT Wastewater Treatment
    WWTP Wastewater Treatment Plant
    WWW World Wide Web
    WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
    Zn Zinc
    ZUM Zones of Uniform Meteorology

2. PROGRAMS AND MODELS

Access MS Database

ADAPT see GIS ADAPT

AGNPS Agricultural Non-Point Source

AML Arc Macro Language

ANNIE a USGS hydrologic timeseries data management system

ArcFM AM/FM/GIS application for the utility industry

ARCINFO a GIS program (ESRI (q.v.))

ArcView a GIS program (ESRI (q.v.))

ASDM Atmospheric and Sediment Deposition Model

ASWMM Analytical SWMM (q.v.) (Univ of Toronto)

AutoCAD(r) an automated computer-aided drafting package

BASIC a programming language

BASINS USEPA Better Assessment Science Integrating Point and Nonpoint Sources program

BATHTUB a reservoir loading model

BOSS-DAMBRK a hydrodynamic flood routing program

CAGIS CSO Area Geographic Information System

CASCADE2 Version of CASCCADE linking HECDSS and SWMM (Univ. of Guelph)

CASCCADE Co-evolving Assistant Software for Changing Computational and Data Environments (links ANNIE and SWMM)

CASE Computer Aided Software Engineering

CASS WORKS an integrated infrastructure management software for water distribution, storm drainage etc.

CEQUEAU a distributed conceptually-based reservoir model

CE-QUAL-R1 an aquatic plant model

CFA Consolidated Frequency Analysis Package

CMP Computer Mapping Program

COGO a CAE application module

COMBINE a time-series module of the SWMM (q.v.) program

CORMIX Cornell Mixing Zone Model (USEPA)

CWQM Circulation and Water Quality Model

DBMS Database Management System

DEM Digital Elevation Model

DOMECOL a water pollution model

DOMOD7 Dissolved Oxygen Model Version 7

DOS a computer operating system

DRASTIC a groundwater pollution-vulnerability evaluation system

DSPLAY a graphical display module of HECDSS

DSS Data Storage System, a type of file format

DSSUTL a data storage system utility module of HECDSS

DTM Digital Terrain Model

DUH digital elevation models

DWOPER Dynamic Wave Operational Model

ECOL ecological aquatic plant model (GRCA (q.v.))

ECOL1 dynamic aquatic plant growth and nutrient uptake model

EPICWQ Erosion/Productivity Impact Calculator -Water Quality

ERDAS a raster based GIS (Earth Resource Data Analysis System)

EXAMSII Exposure Analysis Modeling Systems II

EXSUDS extended SUDS program

EXTRAN extended transport, a computational module of the SWMM (q.v.) program

FDAM flood damage analysis model

FORTRAN a high-level programming language

GAMES Guelph evaluation effects of Agricultural Management on Erosion and Sedimentation (Univ. of Guelph)

GAWSER Guelph All-Weather Sequential-Events Runoff model

GCM General Circulation Models

GeoGUIDE an ARC/INFO GUI

Geo/SQL(r) a geographical program

GeoSelect GIS interface to facilitate raingage selection and data retrieval

GeoSTORM a river program (Innovative Systems Developers Inc)

GH GIS-Hydrology interface (Univ. of Texas CRWR)

GISADAPT Areal Design and Planning Tool; a TIN GIS (W.E. Gates & Assocs)

GISFPM GIS floodplain management

GPS-X a dynamic model for the design, operation and control of wastewater treatment plants

GRASS Geographical Resources Analysis Support System (US Army COE)

GRSM Grand River Simulation Model

GUI Graphical User Interface

HABTAV habitat simulation program

HEC1 hydraulic modeling program to determine discharges (US Army Corps of Engineers)

HEC2 hydraulic modeling program to determine water surfaceelevations (do)

HECAD interface linking HEC1 with ADAPT (do)

HECDSS HEC hydrologic time-series data management system (do)

HECRAS HEC river analysis program (do)

HSPF/HSP-F Hydrologic Simulation Program-Fortran (USEPA)

HWY DSS Highway Decision Support System

HYDRA Hydrologic Data Retrieval and Alarm system

HYDRO a steady state model for WWTP (q.v.) hydraulic processes. (CH2MHill).

HYMO a hydrologic model (USDA)

HYPERCARD a software system developed by Apple.

IDRISI GIS program (Clark Univ.)

IFG4 hydraulic/velocity simulation program

IFORM a rainfall file format defined by RAIN module of SWMM (q.v.)

ILLUDAS Illinois Urban Drainage Area Simulator

INTERHYMO a version of HYMO (q.v.)

IOWDM a file input/output utility for ANNIE (q.v.)

LFA Low Flow Frequency Analysis

MATHPK a math and statistics module of HECDSS

MEGAPLANT a macrophyte model

MIDUSS a stormwater design program

MIKE -- simulation models for water systems (DHI (q.v.))

MODFLOW Modular 3-Dimensional Finite-Difference Ground-water Flow Model

MOUSE sanitary sewer program (DHI (q.v.))

MTOPOND Ontario Ministry of Trans-portation quality control performance model for stormwater ponds

MTV Model Turbo View

MTVE Model Turbo View -EXTRAN

NT Microsoft Windows NT operating system

OASIS On-line Access and Service Information System

ORACLE Database

OTTHYMO Version of the USDA runoff program (HYMO)

OWN Oman Water Networks package

PCSWMM a decision support system for the SWMM (q.v.) program (CHI (q.v.))

PCSWMM GIS a graphical model development environment which provides links to GIS/AM/FM databases (CHI (q.v.))

PDF Probability Density Function

PDM Probabilistic Dilution Model

PHABSIM physical habitat simulation modeling program which calculates the relationship between stream flow and physical habitat for various life stages of an aquatic organism

PLAN a CAE applications module

PLUS a software system (Spinnaker)

POND model (MOEE)

PSRM Pen State Runoff Model

QQS Quantity Quality Simulation

QUAL2E Enhanced Stream Water Quality Model

QUALHYMO a version of HYMO (q.v.)

RAIN a time-series module of the SWMM (q.v.) program

RAINEV a rainfall analysis computer module of SIMPTM (q.v.)

RAP Rainfall Analysis Program

RBE Rule Base Engine

REPGEN a report presentation module of HECDSS

RUNOF97 a GIS-based distributed surface runoff model (Laurentian U.)

RUNOFF a computational module of the SWMM (q.v.) program

RUNSTDY Dynamic wave routing model for analysis of complex sewer systems (Reid Crowther)

SAMS Sewerage Analysis and Management System

SDE Spatial Database Engine

S/T; S-T Storage/Treatment module of SWMM (q.v.)

SEWHYMO a hydrological model

SIMPLE a geo-referenced hydrologic model for remotely sensed data

SIMPTM Simplified Particulate Transport Model

SLAMM Source Loading and Management Model (Pitt, Univ. of Alabama)

SMIFF Spatial Mapping for Integrated Flood Forecasting

SPIDA An unsteady routing model of hydrologic/hydraulic processes for highly looped storm drainage networks

SPINNAKER a hypercard program

STATS a time-series module of the SWMM (q.v.) program (STATISTICS)

STORAGE a computational module of the SWMM (q.v.) program

STORET Storage and Retrieval System

STORM Storage Treatment Overflow Runoff Model (US Army COE (q.v.))

STREAM Segment Travel River Ecosystem Autograph Model

SUDS Statistical Urban Drainage Simulator

SWIFT n operational RTC model (C.U.Q. (q.v.))

SWMenu a SWMM (q.v.) shell

SWMM US EPA Stormwater Management Model

SWRRB-WQ Simulator Water Resources In Rural Basins - Water Quality

SWSTAT a statistics module of ANNIE (q.v.)

SYNOP statistical rainfall analysis program

TEMP a time-series module of the SWMM (q.v.) program

TIGER Topographically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing

TOXIWASP See WASP4

TR-20 USDA (q.v.) SCS (q.v.) Technical Release 20 - a watershed hydrology model to route a design storm hydrograph through a pond

TR55 USDA SCS Technical Release 55 -

TRANSPORT a computational module of the SWMM (q.v.) program

WASP Water (Quality) Analysis Simulation Program (USEPA)

WATFLOOD a hydrologic data base management system for real-time flood forecasting (Kouwen, U. of Waterloo)

WATRSHD Watershed Analysis Tools for Reporting, Statistics, Hypothesis-testing and Display

WATSTORE Water data storage and retrieval system

WDM Watershed Data Manage-ment, a type of file format

WEPP water erosion prediction

WINSTDY Dynamic wave routing model for analysis of complex sewer systems (Reid Crowther)

WSWMM a Windows shell for SWMM (q.v.)

XP-SWMM An expert systems version of SWMM (XP Software)

3. SOME CONSTANTS

1 m3 of water weighs 1 000 kg.

1 ft3 of water weighs 62.4 lb.

1 U.S. gal of water weighs 8.34 lb.

1 Imp. (English) gal of water weighs 10 lb.

1 day has 1 440 minutes and 86 400 seconds.

 aMetric kilograms in this table are weight kilograms which equal 9.81 (m/s2) x kg (mass) = 9.81 Newtons.

 

4. TIME ABBREVIATIONS

Second s

Minute min

Hour       h

Day       d

Week week

Month month

Year        y