readNWISgwl: Groundwater level measurements retrieval from USGS (NWIS)

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Groundwater level measurements retrieval from USGS (NWIS)

Description

Reads groundwater level measurements from NWISweb. Mixed date/times come back from the service depending on the year that the data was collected. See https://waterdata.usgs.gov/usa/nwis/gw for details about groundwater. By default the returned dates are converted to date objects, unless convertType is specified as FALSE. Sites with non-standard date formats (i.e. lacking a day) can be affected (see examples). See https://waterservices.usgs.gov/docs/groundwater-levels/ for more information.

Usage

readNWISgwl(
  siteNumbers,
  startDate = "",
  endDate = "",
  parameterCd = NA,
  convertType = TRUE,
  tz = "UTC"
)

Arguments

siteNumbers	character USGS site number (or multiple sites). This is usually an 8 digit number
startDate	character starting date for data retrieval in the form YYYY-MM-DD. Default is "" which indicates retrieval for the earliest possible record.
endDate	character ending date for data retrieval in the form YYYY-MM-DD. Default is "" which indicates retrieval for the latest possible record.
parameterCd	character USGS parameter code. This is usually an 5 digit number. Default is "".
convertType	logical, defaults to TRUE. If TRUE, the function will convert the data to dates, datetimes, numerics based on a standard algorithm. If false, everything is returned as a character
tz	character to set timezone attribute of dateTime. Default is "UTC", and converts the date times to UTC, properly accounting for daylight savings times based on the data's provided tz_cd column. Possible values to provide are "America/New_York", "America/Chicago", "America/Denver", "America/Los_Angeles", "America/Anchorage", as well as the following which do not use daylight savings time: "America/Honolulu", "America/Jamaica", "America/Managua", "America/Phoenix", and "America/Metlakatla". See also OlsonNames() for more information on time zones.

Value

A data frame with the following columns:

Name	Type	Description
agency_cd	character	The NWIS code for the agency reporting the data
site_no	character	The USGS site number
site_tp_cd	character	Site type code
lev_dt	Date	Date level measured
lev_tm	character	Time level measured
lev_tz_cd	character	Time datum
lev_va	numeric	Water level value in feet below land surface
sl_lev_va	numeric	Water level value in feet above specific vertical datum
lev_status_cd	character	The status of the site at the time the water level was measured
lev_agency_cd	character	The agency code of the person measuring the water level

There are also several useful attributes attached to the data frame:

Name	Type	Description
url	character	The url used to generate the data
queryTime	POSIXct	The time the data was returned
comment	character	Header comments from the RDB file
siteInfo	data.frame	A data frame containing information on the requested sites

See Also

constructNWISURL, importRDB1

Examples

site_id <- "434400121275801"

data <- readNWISgwl(site_id)
sites <- c("434400121275801", "375907091432201")
data2 <- readNWISgwl(site_id, "", "")
data3 <- readNWISgwl("420125073193001", "", "")
# handling of data where date has no day
data4 <- readNWISgwl("425957088141001", startDate = "1980-01-01")

data5 <- readNWISgwl("263819081585801", parameterCd = "72019")

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