station.info {FlowScreen}

Retrieve Station Info

Description

Returns station information for Water Survey Canada or United States Geological Survey stream gauges.

Usage

station.info(TS, StnInfo = NULL, Plot = F, language = "English")

Arguments

TS

output from create.ts containing a data.frame of flow

StnInfo

Optional data.frame containing user-supplied station info for plot. data.frame must have 7 columns containing station info in the following order: Station ID, Station Name, Prov/State, Country, Latitude, Longitude, Catchment Area If any of the information is unavailabe, fill with NA. The Station ID column must match the Station ID in column 1 of the data.frame input from create.ts.

Plot

Boolean indicating whether a plot of station information should be created. Default is F. Plot is intended for use as the upper-left panel of the plot produced by screen.summary.

language

Language for plotting when Plot = T. Choice of either "English" or "French". Default is "English".

Value

Returns a list of the following station information:

• $StationID

• $StnName

• $Prov/State - Abbreviation for the province or state in which the station is located

• $Country - Abbreviation for the country in which the station is located

• $Lat - Latitude of the station

• $Long - Longitude of the station

• $Area - Catchment area, in square kilometers

• $RHN - Boolean indicating whether the station is part of a reference hydrologic network

Author(s)

Jennifer Dierauer

Examples

data(cania.sub.ts)
StnInfo <- station.info(cania.sub.ts)