{"id":3836,"date":"2015-07-26T20:28:24","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T00:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=3836"},"modified":"2015-07-26T20:28:24","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T00:28:24","slug":"sources-of-weather-and-climate-data-us-geological-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/07\/sources-of-weather-and-climate-data-us-geological-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources of weather and climate data: US Geological Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Geological Survey is best known as the source of maps of topography and geology in the United States. \u00a0But the USGS is also a source of water information, particularly stream flows and ground water information. \u00a0In addition to the gauges that monitor rivers across the country, many of the gauges also have a rain gauge. \u00a0The data can be accessed and is particularly useful in areas where there are no other rainfall measurements.<\/p>\n<p>This link <a href=\"https:\/\/ga.water.usgs.gov\/precip\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/ga.water.usgs.gov\/precip\/<\/a> provides access to real-time precipitation data across Georgia, and you can get to other states by substituting that state&#8217;s abbreviation for &#8220;ga&#8221; in the link. \u00a0Other parts of the USGS site provide graphs of past streamflow and precipitation such as the one shown below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/usgs-precip-graph.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-3837\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/usgs-precip-graph-300x200.png\" alt=\"usgs precip graph\" width=\"462\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/usgs-precip-graph-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/usgs-precip-graph-207x138.png 207w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/usgs-precip-graph.png 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/usgs-streamflow.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-3839\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/usgs-streamflow-300x200.png\" alt=\"usgs streamflow\" width=\"463\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/usgs-streamflow-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/usgs-streamflow-207x138.png 207w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/usgs-streamflow.png 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3838\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3838\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/usgs-gauge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3838\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/usgs-gauge-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Source: US\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/usgs-gauge-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/usgs-gauge.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/usgs-gauge-184x138.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3838\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: USGS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Geological Survey is best known as the source of maps of topography and geology in the United States. \u00a0But the USGS is also a source of water information, particularly stream flows and ground water information. \u00a0In addition to the gauges that monitor rivers across the country, many of the gauges also have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":3838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sources-of-weather-and-climate-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3840,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836\/revisions\/3840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}