December 2008 - Updates to waterdata.usgs.gov web system
- New Features
- New Site Types are now implemented in all searching and data outputs
- Help Text Updates
- More current condition parameters available
- Added navigation support for US Territories including American Samoa, Guam, and Northern Mariana Islands
- Site Type Changes
- We have removed the station_type_cd field from our site file information. This field contained a string of Y and N characters to denote the station type and was cryptic to understand.
- A new field, site_tp_cd is now available and it contains a 2-7 character abbreviation of the site type which will contain a primary site type and possibly a secondary site type. The site types available can be found here
- When searching for site type, uses new site types instead of older YN character string
- When outputting Site Information, new site types are used instead of older YN character string.
- Navigation changes
- Link for the Annual Data Report (ADR) on “Available data for this site” pulldown menu now points to most recent data sheet
- Improved error messages for USA level retrievals of water quality data to request users perform queries at state level
- Links on AVAILABLE DATA table now stay at the state level on a site Home Page
- Help text updates
- Updated automated retrieval information document to emphasize that the UTC data element currently only works when retrieving water quality data.
- New current condition parameters available
- Parameter code lookup page
- Parameter code 99401 - Residue, dissolved, water, filtered, estimated by regression equation, milligrams per liter
- Parameter code 72149 - Stream velocity, meters per second
- Parameter code 72126 - Standard deviation of wind direction, degrees
- Parameter code 75969 - Barometric pressure, not corrected to sea level, millibars
- Parameter code 63675 - Turbidity, water, unfiltered, broad band light source (400-680 nm), detection angle 90 +/- 30 degrees to incident light, nephelometric turbidity units (NTU)
- Parameter code 72174 - Longwave radiation, upwelling intensity, watts per square meter
- Parameter code 72175 - Longwave radiation, downwelling intensity, watts per square meter
- Parameter code 72176 - Temperature of sensor, degrees Celsius
- Misc
- Sites with multiple data parameters of 00045 and 99772 (precipitation and metric precipitation) will now display both locations in all tables and graphs.
- Corrected display of measurement data related to shift_applied_va
This site has recently updated their User Interface and listed below are some of the significant features and bug fixes.