EcoHydRology (version 0.4.3)

get_usgs_gage: A function to grab daily stream flow measurements from the USGS waterdata.usgs.gov server.

Description

A function to grab daily stream flow measurements from the USGS waterdata.usgs.gov server.

Usage

get_usgs_gage(gage)

Arguments

gage

gage Gage is a TEXT/String rather than numeric or the query will fail on gages with leading 0s

Value

• area
  Is the area above the gage
• declat
  Decimal Lat
• declon
  Decimal Lon
• flowdata
  Dataframe with the historical flow data

Examples

flowgage_id="04216500"
flowgage=get_usgs_gage(flowgage_id)

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