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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.