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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

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