readNWISuv siteNumbers only accepts usgs 8-digit USGS site IDs?
Created by: mccreigh
Hi there-
First of all, this tool is fantastic. Thank you for making it.
The discovery aspect of this tool is great and critical to my work. But I'm a bit confused about the output of this kind of command meta <- whatWQPsites(huc='10190005')
, which gives me meta$MonitoringLocationIdentifier
like this
...
[565] "NARS_WQX-FW08CO004" ...
[583] "USGS-06725100" ...
[613] "USGS-395528105133800" ...
in relationship to use of readNWISSuv
. Can I only supply the numeric part of the MonitoringLoactionIdentifiers for rows/sites with identifiers like row 583 as the siteNumbers argument? The documentation is not specific ( siteNumbers character USGS site number (or multiple sites). This is usually an 8 digit number
) other than possibly limiting the query to USGS data. But the queries using other identifiers, even the longer USGS ones, have failed for me. In other words, am I only able to get a small subset of the data listed in meta with readNWISSuv
and is there a way to get the other data listed in meta? Maybe I'm missing something.
Also, by the way, is there any access to gages-II data/attributes via these NWIS queries?
Thanks again, james