AFSIRS Agricultural Field Scale Irrigation Requirements Simulation Model
AMC Antecedent Moisture Conditions
ASR Artificial Storage and Recovery Program
BEA Basic Element Area -- polygon area used in GIS crop/soil/irrigation data
BCNP Big Cypress National Preserve -- part of Everglades Preservation Areas
CFS Cubic Feet per Second
COE Army Corps of Engineers
DBHydro Hydrologic database used by the District
DCA Florida Department of Community Affairs
DSS Data Storage System - COE's Hydrologic Engineering Center format for time series flow and stage data
DUL Drained Upper Limit -- maximum root zone storage limit
DRZ Deep Root Zone
EAA Everglades Agricultural Area
ELM Everglades Landscape Model
ENP Everglades National Park -- part of Everglades Preservation Areas
EPA Everglades Preservation Area
ET Evapotranspiration
FGDC Federal Geographical Data Committee
GCP Local Government Comprehensive Plans
GDM Corps GDM -- ???
GIS Geographical Information System
GW Groundwater -- water below the ground, as opposed to above ground (pond)
GWZoom Groundwater Zoom -- interface to MODFLOW
LEC Lower East Coast -- Coastal urban area from St Lucie to Dade
LECRWSP Lower East Coast RegionalWater Supply Plan
LLEW Lower Limit of Extractable Water -- below this level root zone water is not available to plants.
LOK Lake Okeechobee
LNWR Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge
LOSA Lake Okeechobee Service Areas
M&I Nonirrigation Municipal and Irrigation Demand
MSL Mean Sea Level
MSM Managed System Model
MODFLOW USGS model for groundwater flow calculations
NGVD National Geodetic Vertical Datum
NOAA National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
NOS National Ocean Service
NSM Natural System Model. Simulates Floridas elevation, water system and vegetation prior to 1900.
NWI National Wetlands Inventory -basis for the information stored in ARC/INFO
SCS Soil Conservation Service
SFRSM South Florida Regional Simulation Model
SFWMM South Florida Water Management Model
SFWMD South Florida Water Management District
SWIM Surface Water Improvement Management
SRZ Shallow Root Zone
STA Stormwaters Treatment Area
STATSGO State Soil Geographic Database -- source for areas not covered by SSURGO
SSURGO Soil Survey Geographic Database -- a county database of fine scale
THH High high tide
TLL Low low tide
USGS United States Geological Survey
WCA Water Conservation Area -- 3 areas south of EAA, west of LEC, north of ENP
WMM Water Management Model, another name for the SFWMM
WRE Water Research Evaluation Department
WQ Water Quality
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