WATER RESOURCES THESAURUS - USGS

[Pages:137]WATER RESOURCES THESAURUS

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY WATER RESOURCES SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION CENTER

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WATER RESOURCES THESAURUS

THIRD EDITION

A VOCABULARY FOR INDEXING AND RETRIEVING THE LITERATURE OF WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

1980

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OFFICE OF WATER RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY WASHINGTON, D.C. 20240

CONTENTS

Preface iii Introduction v

Using the Thesaurus v I. Thesaurus of Descriptors v A. Use vi B. Used For (UF) vi C. Broader Term (BT) vi D. Narrower Term (NT) vi E. Related Terms (RT) vii n. Descriptor Words vii IE. Descriptors vii

Acknowledgment viii Thesaurus of Descriptors 1 Descriptor Words DW-1 Descriptors D-l

PREFACE

This Thesaurus, developed under a contract with the Smithsonian Science Information Exchange, is one of several publications of the Office of Water Research and Technology, U.S. Department of the Interior, intended to fulfill the responsibilities of the Secretary of the Interior under P. L. 95-467, The Water Research and Development Act of 1978. The authorization for developing and distributing a vocabulary for indexing and retrieving the literature of water resources research and development stems from Title HI, Section 301, wherein the Secretary of the Interior is directed to maintain a national center for the acquisition, processing and dissemination of information dealing with all areas of water resources research, technology development and demonstration.

A word list containing cross-references and relationships among the scientific and technical terms used by researchers and others is an essential tool for ready access to knowledge. It provides access to relevant research by means of storage, dissemination, and retrieval of information on water resources problems.

The availability of this Thesaurus will make it possible to enlist individual researchers and other authors of water resources literature to contribute to the documentation of their work by providing indexing terms from this volume. Indexing at the source and improving the information content of titles, descriptions of research projects, and abstracts of reports and general literature are part of a concerted effort now underway by scientific and engineering societies, universities, and Government to improve communications and facilitate retrieval of scientific and technical information.

Users of this third edition of the Water Resources Thesaurus are invited to send their comments and suggestions for its improvement to the Technology and Information Transfer Program, Office of Water Research and Technology, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C. 20240. The comments, together with the statistics of actual use of the terms in indexing and retrieval, will provide the basis for future revisions.

GARY D. COBB, Director Office of Water Research and Technology

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