Water Data Report
To Our Partners:
U.S. Geological Survey data collected during the 2006 Water Year have been published and are available online at http://pubs.water.usgs.gov/wdr2006. Electronic online reports for North Carolina for water years 2001 – 2005 continue to be available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/wdr/#NC, and historical water-resources data are available at http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nc/nwis/nwis. We also invite you to visit the North Carolina Water Science Center home page at http://nc.water.usgs.gov/ where you can access additional water-resources data, USGS publications information, and descriptions of our other activities.
Beginning with the 2006 Water Year, the USGS annual Water Resources Data Report has changed from a state-based product to a national report. Individual Site Data Sheets are published using a consistent, web-based search page, map interface, and supporting documentation for the entire country. Site Data Sheets contain all data available for a particular site, including surface-water, ground-water, water-quality, and climatologic data. We anticipate that new capabilities will be added to this web site in the future, and we would appreciate your comments and suggestions on improving the site. Format for citation of the data is given below.
We also are pleased to inform you that all instantaneous (for example, hourly) streamflow values for the period of available computer-stored data (generally since the mid 1980's) at existing and discontinued stations in North Carolina are available at http://ida.water.usgs.gov/ida/index.cfm?ncd=37. The Instantaneous Data Archive provides a new and exciting level of data availability to our partners and the public. We anticipate that additional types (e.g. water level, precipitation, etc.) of instantaneous data will be added to the archive in the near future.
If you have any questions or comments regarding this new data delivery format or any aspects of our program, please contact me at (919) 571-4000 (email: jdbales@usgs.gov).
Jerad D. Bales, Director
USGS North Carolina Water Science Center
Suggested Citation Format
Citation of data should be to the national Water Data Report at http://pubs.water.usgs.gov/wdr2006. Example references follow, and can be modified to follow other citation styles. Note the use of the access date in the examples.
U.S. Geological Survey, 2007, Water-resources data for the United States, Water Year 2006: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Data Report WDR-US-2006, accessed April 1, 2007, at http://pubs.water.usgs.gov/wdr2006
A specific data sheet can be referenced by including the site number:
U.S. Geological Survey, 2007, Water-resources data for the United States, Water Year 2006: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Data Report WDR-US-2006, site 01234567, accessed April 1, 2007, at http://pubs.water.usgs.gov/wdr2006
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