What it is
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Water Dashboard (NWD) gives decision makers, emergency managers and the public critical information during droughts, floods and other extreme events, and in normal times. It helps inform decisions that protect lives and property before and during those events.
- It draws on the site-by-site data of the USGS National Water Information System.
- It links to USGS WaterAlert, which sends users instant, customized updates on water conditions.
- It is part of the USGS effort to meet 21st-century science needs.
Visit it at dashboard.waterdata.usgs.gov.
It combines USGS real-time water data and other federal water-hazard data in one modern, mobile-friendly map of the whole country — for example, streamflow after Hurricane Elsa in July 2021, streamflow over drought conditions, or rainfall across the Southeast 24 hours after Elsa reached Florida.
What it does
- Summarizes and displays data from more than 13,500 USGS stations.
- Assesses hydrologic conditions, both water quality and quantity.
- Runs summary reports on USGS water data.
- Adds hazard and weather data from other federal agencies.
- Refreshes every minute from the National Water Information System.
- Supports custom, reusable views at any scale.
- Works with WaterAlert and the Next Generation USGS Water Data for the Nation products for advanced needs.
The result makes USGS water data, and partners' weather-related data, usable in place and time, for a national view of water conditions.
Its layers
| Layer | What it shows |
|---|---|
| USGS stations | 7 kinds of current conditions: streamflow, surface-water levels, groundwater levels, spring water levels, water quality, rainfall, atmospheric data |
| Weather | 9 kinds, from federal partners: hurricanes, alerts, radar, recent rainfall, rainfall forecast, snow, cloud cover, temperature, drought |
| Hydrography | maps of rivers, watersheds and aquifers |
| Basemaps | 16 options |
Data come from sources named in the application, including USGS, the National Weather Service and the National Integrated Drought Information System.
Sources
Based on Water Priorities for the Nation—The USGS National Water Dashboard, U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2022-3003, by Mark P. Miller, Thomas E. Burley and Brian E. McCallum, USGS Publications Warehouse; a work of the United States government in the public domain. The imported text was the Spanish edition; this page follows the English one. Its screenshots, drawn on Esri basemaps, are not reproduced.
Licence: CC0 1.0 (public domain) · Adapted from pubs.usgs.gov
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