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usgs

Provider

US Geological Survey

Product

Modern continuous water-data API; discharge parameter 00060

Coverage

One supported USGS station per request

Resolution

Point station; native observation intervals

Temporal coverage

Provider-available observations; <=31-day requests

Access method

Modern OGC JSON API, cursor pagination, seven-day batches

Temporal support

Unknown at this general source level: timestamps, statistic, and native metadata are retained, but the loader does not claim one physical support interval for every series. See Temporal alignment.

What it provides

Observed discharge at an identified streamgage through time.

Available CubeDynamics nouns

streamflow

Current QA/certification status

Bounded real acquisition and offline checks passed for retained samples. Broader scientific review and sustained-load testing remain open; endpoint availability is independent. QA profile: station_timeseries. Evidence and scope.

Serving revision / provenance information

Rolling values/status; stable key is series ID plus time. No production serving revision assigned. Raw response hashes, request parameters, and source-specific metadata are preserved; a live refresh never overwrites an existing snapshot.

Important limitations

10,000 observations; 40 requests / 16 MB bodies / 180 s. Preserve native units/statistic and provisional flags; missing values are not filled. Multiple series require explicit selection. No synthetic fallback.

USGS Water Data APIs

Examples using this source