swm {inldata}

Surface-Water Measurements

Description

Stage measurements and calculated discharge at gauging stations in the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) surface-water monitoring network, Idaho National Laboratory and vicinity, Idaho. The purpose of this network is to provide information on the availability and distribution of surface water resources.

Usage

swm

Format

A data frame with columns:

site_nm

Local site name.

site_no

USGS site number.

stage_dt

Date and time the water level was measured, in "America/Denver" time zone. Missing values of time were substituted with "12:00".

stage_va

Gage height (stage) as shown on the inside staff gage at the site or read off the recorder inside the gage house in feet.

disch_va

Computed discharge in cubic feet per second (cfs).

stage_acy_va

Accuracy of stage measurment in feet.

disch_acy_va

Accuracy of computed discharge in cfs.

Source

Data was obtained from the National Water Information System (NWIS) (U.S. Geological Survey, 2023). Groundwater level data was retrieved from NWIS by using the USGS R-package dataRetrieval (DeCicco and others, 2023). Data was retrieved for each site number listed in the samples dataset and removed any non-essential columns.

References

DeCicco, L.A., Hirsch, R.M., Lorenz, D., Watkins, W.D., Johnson, M., 2023, dataRetrieval: R packages for discovering and retrieving water data available from Federal hydrologic web services, v.2.7.13, doi:10.5066/P9X4L3GE.

U.S. Geological Survey, 2023, National Water Information System—web services, accessed January 10, 2024, from doi:10.5066/F7P55KJN.

Examples

str(swm)

poi <- as.POSIXct(c("2000-01-01", "2024-01-01")) # period of interest
site_no <- "13132500" # station BIG LOST RIVER NR ARCO ID
is <- swm$stage_dt >= poi[1] & swm$stage_dt < poi[2] & swm$site_no == site_no
d <- swm[is, ]
plotrix::plotCI(
  x = d$stage_dt,
  y = d$stage_va,
  li = d$stage_va - d$stage_acy_va,
  ui = d$stage_va + d$stage_acy_va
)