get_catchment_characteristics {nhdplusTools}

Get Catchment Characteristics

Description

Downloads (subsets of) catchment characteristics from a cloud data store. See get_characteristics_metadata for available characteristics.

Source: Wieczorek, M.E., Jackson, S.E., and Schwarz, G.E., 2018, Select Attributes for NHDPlus Version 2.1 Reach Catchments and Modified Network Routed Upstream Watersheds for the Conterminous United States (ver. 3.0, January 2021): U.S. Geological Survey data release, doi:10.5066/F7765D7V.

Usage

get_catchment_characteristics(varname, ids, reference_fabric = "nhdplusv2")

Arguments

varname

character vector of desired variables. If repeated varnames are provided, they will be downloaded once but duplicated in the output.

ids

numeric vector of identifiers (comids) from the specified fabric

reference_fabric

(not used) will be used to allow future specification of alternate reference fabrics

Examples

  get_catchment_characteristics("CAT_BFI", c(5329343, 5329427))