Citation:

Description:

Peak discharge data from the U.S. Geological Survey (http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis-w/NC) for gaging stations within the North Carolina portion of the Albemarle-Pamlico Estuary watershed. Record dates vary by gaging station. Data for each station are located in a text file named by station number_peak.
Header information in the data files include:
Station name
Station number
latitude (ddmmss)
longitude (dddmmss)
state code
county
hydrologic unit
basin name
drainage area (square miles)
gage datum (feet above NGVD)
base discharge (cubic ft/sec)

URLs/Downloads:

NC_PEAK_STREAMFLOW.ZIP

Record Details:

Record Type:DATA SET

Product Published Date:12/31/1998

Record Last Revised:12/10/2002

Record ID: 13020

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Access Procedures :http://www.epa.gov/eims/files/ord-nerl/nc_peak_streamflow.zip

Data Elements:

Data Element :TYPE

Data Type :NUMBER

Data Element Description :?

Max Value Length :1

Data Element :PGQUAL

Data Type :CHARACTER

Data Element Description :PGQual

Max Value Length :4

Data Element :PEAKHEIGHT

Data Type :NUMBER

Data Element Description :PeakHeight

Max Value Length :6

Data Element :PGDATE

Data Type :DATE

Data Element Description :PGDate

Max Value Length :10

Data Element :HIGHSINCE

Data Type :CHARACTER

Data Element Description :HighSince

Max Value Length :2

Data Element :GAGEQUAL

Data Type :CHARACTER

Data Element Description :GageQual

Max Value Length :4

Data Element :GAGEATPEAK

Data Type :NUMBER

Data Element Description :Gage heights are given in feet above gage datum elevation.

Max Value Length :8

Data Element :DISQUAL

Data Type :CHARACTER

Data Element Description :DisQual

Max Value Length :12

Data Element :DISCHARGE

Data Type :NUMBER

Data Element Description :discharge (above base?) in cfs

Max Value Length :6

Data Element :DATE

Data Type :DATE

Data Element Description :date of peak discharge, format YYYY.MM.DD

Max Value Length :10

Data Element :STATION

Data Type :NUMBER

Data Element Description :station ID - same as file name and station ID in file header

Max Value Length :15

Geographic Areas:

Title :PEAK DISCHARGE STREAMFLOW - NORTH CAROLINA PORTION OF ALBEMARLE-PAMLICO ESTUARY

Version :1.0

State :NC