How to get discharge data from USGS

by Luis Gustavo Ariza Trelles [170413 19:01]



   Using USGS to located a discharge station in U.S.


  1. Go to USGS web page: https://maps.waterdata.usgs.gov/mapper/index.html

  2. Click inside the map and zoom in to indentificate one discharge station.

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    Fig. 1  USGS virtual plataform: National Water Information System.

  3. Identicate the discharge station and clic on the grey icon.

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    Fig. 2  View of the information of discharge station.

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    Fig. 3  View of the station name and code.

  4. Clic on Access Data. Then chose the type of discharge data that we need.

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    Fig. 4  View of available data from discharge station.

  5. Click on Daily Data.

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    Fig. 5  View of available parameters selected.

  6. Chose between Graph or Table the ouput data format and input date range (begin and end). Finally clic onGo.

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    Fig. 6  View of graph selected discharge data.

  7. View of the previsualization graph.

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    Fig. 7  View of previsualization graph.

  8. View of Table output data.

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    Fig. 8  View of tabla data.