Hydrological Bureau

SMHI has a century long history. In 1873, the Swedish Meteorological Institute was established and in 1919, it was merged with the Hydrological Bureau. An oceanographic department was established in 1967 with the primary aim to monitor the plumes of cooling water at nuclear power plants and their effect on the environment. 

Kreitler, C.W., Akhter, M.S., and Donnelly, A.C.A., Hydrologic-Hydrochemical Characterization of Texas Gulf Coast Saline Formations Used for Deep Well Injection of Chemical Wastes, Prepared for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency by University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, 1988. 

Bureau of Hydrology, Changjiang Water Resources Commission, Wuhan, China... 

Hydrology and Water Resources Survey Bureau of Shaanxi Province, Xi an. China... 

Debler, E.B. (1930). Hydrology of the Boulder Canyon Reservoir. USBR Denver. Debler, E.B. (1932). Final report on Middle Rio Grande investigations. USBR Denver. Debler, E.B. (1949). Development of policy by the Bureau of Reclamation. Multipurpose reservoirs A symposium. Proc. ASCE 75(3) 295-300. 

Henryk Pawl Herbich obtained his eivil engineering diploma from the Technical University of Warsaw in 1923. He attended also courses at the University of Edinburg UK, receiving the DSe degree in 1943. He worked from 1924 for the Dept, of Public Works, and later for the Polish Dept, of Transportation as hydraulic engineer. He was from 1935 head of the Polish Water Power Bureau, and vice-president of the Inland Waterways Department until 1939. Then he directed the hydro-electric research division, the Polish Hydrological Institute, and he was part-time Lecturer at the Technical University of Warsaw. 

Major changes at the governmental level in the United States assumed increasing importance as several hydrologic agencies were created in the nineteenth century the Army Corps of Engineers in 1802, the Weather Bureau in 1870 (now called the National Weather Service), the U.S. Geological Survey, and the Mississippi River Commission in 1879. 

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