Drainage Area Metrics

See #39 for details.

v1.0

This release introduces a reference gage spatial locations to 1) help deduplicate multiple providers' gages found in the same spatial location and 2) keep track of gages that a provider no longer makes available but is held in the registry.

• CO stream gages have been added from https://data.colorado.gov/Water/Current-Surface-Water-Conditions-in-Colorado/4yw9-a5y6/data
• Code to incorporate gages from https://doi.org/10.18122/redi_data.2.boisestate has been incorporated but gages from this source are not yet in the registry.

https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/file/get/60c7b895d34e86b9389b2a6c?name=usgs_nldi_gages.geojson
https://www.hydroshare.org/resource/3295a17b4cc24d34bd6a5c5aaf753c50/data/contents/nldi_gages.geojson

What's Changed

• CO and PNW by @dblodgett-usgs in #31

Full Changelog: v0.8...v1.0

Rebuild with latest NWIS

This release includes reference gages 189610 to 191069 (1459 new gages since the last release).

geojson artifacts:
https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/file/get/60c7b895d34e86b9389b2a6c?name=usgs_nldi_gages.geojson
https://www.hydroshare.org/resource/3295a17b4cc24d34bd6a5c5aaf753c50/data/contents/nldi_gages.geojson

Update NWIS and one new site location.

geojson artifacts:
https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/file/get/60c7b895d34e86b9389b2a6c?name=usgs_nldi_gages.geojson
https://www.hydroshare.org/resource/3295a17b4cc24d34bd6a5c5aaf753c50/data/contents/nldi_gages.geojson

Add mainstems and update swim locations.

Mainstem rivers of the US were added to reference gage summary information that loads into https://reference.geoconnex.us/collections/gages/

David L Blodgett, 20211001, Mainstem Rivers of the Conterminous United States: U.S. Geological Survey, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104927, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9BTKP3T.

NULL values in SWIM gage locations represented as -9999 were corrected.

SWIMS Gages Locations

This release includes the gage network locations from:

Hayes, L., Chase, K.J., Wieczorek, M.E., and Jackson, S.E., 2021, USGS streamgages in the conterminous United States indexed to NHDPlus v2.1 flowlines to support Streamgage Watershed InforMation (SWIM), 2021: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9J5CK2Y.

NWIS sites were also re-run to the latest available version of the site file.

NWIS Override Registry Update

v0.4

USGS gage update and override registry

USGS Update and CDEC URL Update

v0.3

latest usgs gages and cdec url update

California CDEC Gages

This is the first release to include providers other than USGS. The workflow to create the registry is still a work in progress but is starting to mature toward supporting multiple organization's data.

See: https://github.com/dblodgett-usgs/ref_gages/issues/13 for more information.

All USGS Gages

This release is the first formal release of ref_gages. It includes all inland surface water gages from the USGS NWIS Site service.

Sites retrieved from: https://github.com/dblodgett-usgs/ref_gages/blob/master/R/get_data.R#L6

Verified against: https://github.com/dblodgett-usgs/ref_gages/blob/master/R/get_data.R#L17

Included site types seen here: https://github.com/dblodgett-usgs/ref_gages/blob/master/R/gage_locations.R#L3

Reference gages for info.geoconnex.us housed here: https://www.hydroshare.org/resource/4a22e88e689949afa1cf71ae009eaf1b/

USGS NLDI gages uploaded here until a waterdata.usgs.gov host can be implemented.