| CONUS | Contiguous United States |
| EPA | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
| HUC8 | Hydrologic Unit Code 8 |
| KC | Kolmogorov complexity |
| LE | Lyapunov exponent in caption of Figure 12 |
| LEX | Time series of Lyapunov exponent |
| LL | Lower-left |
| LR | Lower-right |
| LZA | Lempel–Ziv algorithm |
| NHD | National Hydrography Dataset |
| NID | National Inventory of Dams |
| PRE | Time series of monthly precipitation |
| RCC | Relative change in complexities |
| STF | Time series of monthly streamflow |
| TAV | Time series of monthly temperature |
| UL | Upper-left |
| UR | Upper-right |
| USGS | U.S. Geological Survey |