Also contains publications and news releases from the USGS concerning water, and program descriptions. The HIC prepares national summaries of hydrologic conditions, including river conditions with emphasis on extreme events such as floods and anomalously low flows. The HIC issues national outlooks for flooding conditions. It assembles, analyzes and disseminates hydrologic information such as statistics on losses resulting from flooding, streamflow forecasts and observations,locations and historical information at observation points. It maintains selected operational information as well as material documenting historical hydrologic events.
Searchers can retrieve data on current conditions, and view the archives of past flood summaries.
Hydrology Web is an extensive list of Internet sources on the topic of hydrology. The well-organized index is easily browsable and the site does include a search engine.