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April 8, 2015

April 8, 2015

 

  • USGS Water Data for the Nation (waterdata.usgs.gov)
    • Removed "new" tag off of the Graph with (up to 3) parms on DV station pages
    • WYS,  adjusted end dates on STAT_SUMM table
  • USGS Water Services (waterservices.usgs.gov)
    • Ground water service - Records with duplicate time zone corrections fixed.
    • Instantaneous and Daily Value services - improved marshaling of data output

 

March 23, 2015

USGS Water Data for the Nation (waterdata.usgs.gov)

  • Water Year Summary (WYS) Reports
  • Changes made to Statistics web service for Water Year Summary reports.
  • Water Year Summary (WYS) Reports Seasonal / partial record site:
      • Those sites which, by design, only have data collected for part of water year 2014, will have no table 2 (monthly stats) or table 3 (annual stats) included in the 2014 WYS report.
      • Statistics only are computed for time-series with 5 or more complete months/years of data.
      • Monthly statistics (table 2)
        • For any given month, compute the monthly statistics from daily values only if a complete month of data For period of record monthly statistics, compute from the above monthly means using begin date in stat_summ.
      • Annual statistics (table 3)
        • For any given year, compute the annual statistics from daily values only if a complete year of data For period of record annual statistics, compute from the above annual means using begin data in stat_summ.

     

    • General bugs addressed
        • Measurement table on waterdata has a bad link to old help files.
        • Bad link removed from Status pages.
        • Precision for negative max/min gage heights.
        • Reference lines not displaying on graphs for certain operational parameter.

    Water Web Services (waterservices.usgs.gov)

    • Statistical WebService - modifications for WYS
    • Groundwater WebService - WaterML2.0 added

    Help System (help.waterdata.usgs.gov)

    • Help on how often graphs are refreshed.

    Mapper (maps.waterdata.usgs.gov)

    • WaterAlert URL direction changed.