NWIS Web Service

NWIS

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GetStationsWithWQParameter

Given a lat/long box, a begin date, an end date, a USGS parameter code, and a minimum count, this method returns a string where each record is a new line, and each record contains (1) the USGS station number, (2) the number of observations, (3) the date of the first observation, and (4) the date of the last observation of the given parameter, for that station.

Test

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SOAP 1.1

The following is a sample SOAP 1.1 request and response. The placeholders shown need to be replaced with actual values.

POST /NWISTS/nwis.asmx HTTP/1.1
Host: river.sdsc.edu
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length
SOAPAction: "http://tempuri.org/NWISTS/NWIS2/GetStationsWithWQParameter"

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <soap:Body>
    <GetStationsWithWQParameter xmlns="http://tempuri.org/NWISTS/NWIS2">
      <NWLat>string</NWLat>
      <NWLong>string</NWLong>
      <SELat>string</SELat>
      <SELong>string</SELong>
      <StartDate>string</StartDate>
      <EndDate>string</EndDate>
      <ParameterCode>string</ParameterCode>
      <MinCount>string</MinCount>
    </GetStationsWithWQParameter>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <soap:Body>
    <GetStationsWithWQParameterResponse xmlns="http://tempuri.org/NWISTS/NWIS2">
      <GetStationsWithWQParameterResult>string</GetStationsWithWQParameterResult>
    </GetStationsWithWQParameterResponse>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

SOAP 1.2

The following is a sample SOAP 1.2 request and response. The placeholders shown need to be replaced with actual values.

POST /NWISTS/nwis.asmx HTTP/1.1
Host: river.sdsc.edu
Content-Type: application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap12:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap12="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope">
  <soap12:Body>
    <GetStationsWithWQParameter xmlns="http://tempuri.org/NWISTS/NWIS2">
      <NWLat>string</NWLat>
      <NWLong>string</NWLong>
      <SELat>string</SELat>
      <SELong>string</SELong>
      <StartDate>string</StartDate>
      <EndDate>string</EndDate>
      <ParameterCode>string</ParameterCode>
      <MinCount>string</MinCount>
    </GetStationsWithWQParameter>
  </soap12:Body>
</soap12:Envelope>

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap12:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap12="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope">
  <soap12:Body>
    <GetStationsWithWQParameterResponse xmlns="http://tempuri.org/NWISTS/NWIS2">
      <GetStationsWithWQParameterResult>string</GetStationsWithWQParameterResult>
    </GetStationsWithWQParameterResponse>
  </soap12:Body>
</soap12:Envelope>