California Watersheds Data Explanations

 

The data on this server is being built up gradually by uploads of data from various Internet data archives. The table below provides the dataset and the data archive URL for where we downloaded the data from. Datasets will also often have an associated data to differentiate between downloads from the same data source.

Data Archive Location

Data Set	URL
NOAA Hourly and Daily Precipitation Data	http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html	Periodically updated
USGS Surface Water Data	http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ca/nwis/sw/	Periodically updated
USGS Real-time Data	Water Quality Data: http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ca/nwis/qw/ Real Time Discharge and HeightG: is from a combination of direct contact with USGS and http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ca/nwis/rt/	Periodically updated. Currently contains through Feb 2008

 

The current datumtype names, descriptions, and the units of the datumtypes available for the California Watersheds are provided in the table available here.

 

Announcements regarding the California Watersheds Scientific Data Server are posted on this page.