gage_extract: Get gage meta-data for a county

In countyfloods: Quantify United States County-Level Flood Measurements

Description

This function uses the whatNWISsites function from the dataRetrieval package to pull information on all stream gages within a county and then adds the county FIPS code as an additional column to the dataframe.

Usage

gage_extract(county_cd, start_date, end_date)

Arguments

county_cd	Character vector with the county FIPS code
start_date	Character string with the starting date, using "YYYY-MM-DD" notation.
end_date	Character string with the end date, using "YYYY-MM-DD" notation.

Value

A dataframe with information about stream gages within a county for a specified time frame. This information typically includes each gage's site number, station name, agency code, site type code, latitude, longitude, and county code. See the whatNWISsites function from the dataRetrieval package for details.

See Also

whatNWISsites

Examples

gage_extract("12086", start_date = "2000-01-01", end_date = "2009-12-31")

countyfloods documentation built on May 2, 2019, 2:38 a.m.