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Water Quality
Water quality profiles are taken twice daily.
Start Date:
Choose the date range for which you want to retrieve data.
Data is available seasonally from 6/12/2006. (
data availability
)
End Date:
Fields:
water temperature (°C)
turbidity+ (NTU / FNU)
specific conductance (uS/cm)
chlorophyll (ug/L / RFU)
optical dissolved oxygen (mg/L)
blue-green algae, BGA-PC (ug/L / RFU)
optical dissolved oxygen (% saturation)
Choose the data fields you want to retrieve. (
more information
)
In addition to the fields checked, the date, time, and depth (in meters) will be reported for each reading.
Options:
calibrated data only
calibrated data if available
raw data only
Calibrated data only
returns only calibrated data.
Calibrated data if available
may result in a mix of calibrated and uncalibrated data, returning calibrated values if they exist and uncalibrated values otherwise.
Raw data only
returns only measured values, even if calibrated data exists for those readings.
Output Format:
view on screen
CSV file
View on screen
returns the results formatted as a table for convenient on-screen viewing.
Choose
CSV file
and then use your browser's "Save As" feature to save the data in a format suitable for importing into Excel or other programs.
Meteorology
Start Date:
Choose the date range for which you want to retrieve data.
Data is available seasonally from 6/12/2006. (
data availability
)
End Date:
Fields:
air temperature (°C)
wind speed (m/s)
relative humidity (%)
wind direction (°)
barometric pressure (mbars)
wind direction (N/S/E/W)
light intensity (watts/m
2
)
Choose the data fields you want to retrieve. (Wind direction is only available for periodic readings.)
In addition to those checked, the date and time (periodic readings only) will be reported for each reading.
Reading Type:
periodic readings
daily minimum, maximum, and average
Periodic readings
are recorded multiple times per day, and are the average of multiple readings taken over the sampling interval. (
more information
)
Daily average
,
daily minimum
, and
daily maximum
are recorded once per day. (
more information
)
Output Format:
view on screen
CSV file
View on screen
returns the results formatted as a table for convenient on-screen viewing.
Choose
CSV file
and then use your browser's "Save As" feature to save the data in a format suitable for importing into Excel or other programs.
All data is provisional unless otherwise indicated.
Questions? Comments? Contact bridgeman@hws.edu (website) or halfman@hws.edu (buoy and data).