ISF Appendix 4:  Example of a USGS *.dta file

 

# US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

# DAILY MEAN DISCHARGE DATA

#

# Station name : L Tonsina R Nr Tonsina Ak

# Station number: 15207800

# latitude (ddmmss)............................. 612849

# longitude (dddmmss)........................... 1450905

# state code.................................... 02

# county........................................ Valdez-Cordova Census Area

# hydrologic unit code.......................... 19020102

# basin name....................................

# drainage area (square miles).................. 22.7

# contributing drainage area (square miles).....

# gage datum (feet above NGVD).................. 1850

# base discharge (cubic ft/sec).................

# WATSTORE parameter code....................... 00060

# WATSTORE statistic code....................... 00003

# Discharge is listed in the table in cubic feet per second.

#

# Daily mean discharge data were retrieved from the

# National Water Information System files called ADAPS.

#

# Format of table is as follows.

# Lines starting with the # character are comment lines describing the data

# included in this file. The next line is a row of tab-delimited column

# names that are Date and Discharge. The next line is a row of tab-delimited

# data type codes that describe a 10-character-wide date (10d) and an

# 8-character-wide numeric value for discharge (8n). All following lines are

# rows of tab-delimited data values of date (year.month.day) and discharge.

#

# NOTE this file was requested from the NWIS-W software package

# on Mon Aug 10 19:32:51 1998

# Dates are now in format.

#

# ----Date Range In File----

# 1 1972.09.01-1978.09.30

Date Discharge Flags

10s 8n 2s

1972.09.01 30

1972.09.02 30

1972.09.03 35

1972.09.04 35

1972.09.05 35

1972.09.06 30

 

 


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