Florence Thompson
Florence has been a geographer at the Texas Water Science Center in Austin, Texas since 2006. She has worked on numerous Geographic Information Systems (GIS) projects, including 1:1,000,000-scale hydrographic data production for the National Atlas of the United States, a wildland fire history along the middle Rio Grande in New Mexico, the Watershed Boundary Dataset, watershed modeling,
Education and Certifications
Bachelor of Arts, History, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota
Master of Applied Geography, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas
Abstracts and Presentations
Thompson, F.E., 2010, “The National Atlas of the United States 1:1,000,000-Scale Hydrography Dataset,” 2010 ESRI International User Conference, San Diego, CA July 2010
Science and Products
Flow-Conditioned Parameter Grids for the Contiguous United States: A Pilot, Seamless Basin Characteristic Dataset
Abstract To aid in parameterization of mechanistic, statistical, and machine learning models of hydrologic systems in the contiguous United States (CONUS), flow-conditioned parameter grids (FCPGs) have been generated describing upstream basin mean elevation, slope, land cover class, latitude, and 30-year climatologies of mean total annual precipitation, minimum daily air temperature, and...
Simulation of streamflow and the effects of brush management on water yields in the upper Guadalupe River watershed, south-central Texas, 1995-2010
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board and the Upper Guadalupe River Authority, developed and calibrated a Soil and Water Assessment Tool watershed model of the upper Guadalupe River watershed in south-central Texas to simulate streamflow and the effects of brush management on water yields in the watershed and to Canyon Lake for...
Authors
Johnathan R. Bumgarner, Florence E. Thompson
Production of a national 1:1,000,000-scale hydrography dataset for the United States: feature selection, simplification, and refinement
During 2006-09, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the National Atlas of the United States, produced a 1:1,000,000-scale (1:1M) hydrography dataset comprising streams and waterbodies for the entire United States, including Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, for inclusion in the recompiled National Atlas. This report documents the methods used to select, simplify, and...
Authors
Robin H. Gary, Zachary D. Wilson, Christy-Ann M. Archuleta, Florence E. Thompson, Joseph Vrabel
Geoprocessing tools and scripts designed to streamline the workflow required to process map libraries for upload to the Interagency Flood Risk Management (InFRM) Flood Decision Support Toolbox (FDST)
The Interagency Flood Risk Management (InFRM) team’s Flood Decision Support Toolbox is designed to accept flood map library submission from external agencies wishing to contribute to the web application. The geoprocessing of geospatial data comprising the flood map libraries follows set guidelines to facilitate the submission process to the web application. However, the InFRM team...
Science and Products
Flow-Conditioned Parameter Grids for the Contiguous United States: A Pilot, Seamless Basin Characteristic Dataset
Abstract To aid in parameterization of mechanistic, statistical, and machine learning models of hydrologic systems in the contiguous United States (CONUS), flow-conditioned parameter grids (FCPGs) have been generated describing upstream basin mean elevation, slope, land cover class, latitude, and 30-year climatologies of mean total annual precipitation, minimum daily air temperature, and...
Simulation of streamflow and the effects of brush management on water yields in the upper Guadalupe River watershed, south-central Texas, 1995-2010
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board and the Upper Guadalupe River Authority, developed and calibrated a Soil and Water Assessment Tool watershed model of the upper Guadalupe River watershed in south-central Texas to simulate streamflow and the effects of brush management on water yields in the watershed and to Canyon Lake for...
Authors
Johnathan R. Bumgarner, Florence E. Thompson
Production of a national 1:1,000,000-scale hydrography dataset for the United States: feature selection, simplification, and refinement
During 2006-09, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the National Atlas of the United States, produced a 1:1,000,000-scale (1:1M) hydrography dataset comprising streams and waterbodies for the entire United States, including Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, for inclusion in the recompiled National Atlas. This report documents the methods used to select, simplify, and...
Authors
Robin H. Gary, Zachary D. Wilson, Christy-Ann M. Archuleta, Florence E. Thompson, Joseph Vrabel
Geoprocessing tools and scripts designed to streamline the workflow required to process map libraries for upload to the Interagency Flood Risk Management (InFRM) Flood Decision Support Toolbox (FDST)
The Interagency Flood Risk Management (InFRM) team’s Flood Decision Support Toolbox is designed to accept flood map library submission from external agencies wishing to contribute to the web application. The geoprocessing of geospatial data comprising the flood map libraries follows set guidelines to facilitate the submission process to the web application. However, the InFRM team...