Watershed Data Management (WDM) Database (SC17.WDM) for Salt Creek Streamflow Simulation, DuPage County, Illinois, January 1, 1997, through September 30, 2017 (ver. 1.1, September 2024)

The watershed data management (WDM) database SC16.WDM is updated with the processed data for the period October 1, 2016, through September 30, 2017, and renamed as SC17.WDM. The precipitation data are collected from a tipping-bucket rain-gage network and the hydrologic data (stage and discharge) are collected at USGS streamflow-gaging stations in and around DuPage County, Illinois. Hourly precipitation and hydrologic data for the period October 1, 2016, through September 30, 2017, are processed following the guidelines described in Bera (2014) and appended to SC16.WDM and renamed as SC17.WDM. Meteorological data (wind speed, solar radiation, air temperature, dewpoint temperature, and potential evapotranspiration) from October 1, 2016, through September 30, 2017, are copied from ARGN17.WDM and appended to SC17.WDM.

Data in dataset number (DSN) 107 and 801–810 are used in comparisons of precipitation data. DSN 107 contains hourly precipitation data collected at Argonne National Laboratory at Argonne, Illinois. DSN 801-810 contains the processed Next Generation Weather Radar (NEXRAD)-Multisensor Precipitation Estimates (MPE) data from 10 NEXRAD–MPE subbasins in the Salt Creek watershed as described in Bera and Ortel (2018). Data in these DSNs are not quality-assured and quality-controlled. The data are downloaded and uploaded daily into a WDM database that is used for the real-time streamflow simulation system. Data from DSN 107 and 801-810 are copied from this WDM and stored in SC17.WDM. DSN 107 and 801-810 are updated with the data through September 30, 2017. Data in DSN 5400 (water-surface elevation at the quarry) and 5700 (water surface elevation at Thorndale) are updated through September 30, 2017, similarly (Murphy and Ishii, 2006).

Each rain gage station uses one of two different data loggers: the HOBO® or the WaterLOG® H-522+ XL™ Data Collection Platform (DCP).

During the period October 1, 2016, through September 30, 2017, the daily total value (in the water year summary for water year 2017) from the rain gage using the HOBO® logger did not match with the sum of the instantaneous values pulled from NWIS-WEB for several days. This is due to multiple tips occurring within the same minute. NWIS-WEB only counts the first tip and ignores any other tips that occur within the same minute. HOBO® loggers only record the time of a tip, and the data is post processed to apply midnight time stamps and backfill 5- or 15- minute instantaneous values into the data log. The multiple tips occurring in the same minute are accurate, thus so is the daily total in the water year summary table. Table 1 shows the list of station(s) using the HOBO® logger that had different daily total rainfall in the Water Data Report than those computed from the data pulled from NWIS-WEB. The days with the difference of 0.03 inches or more are filled with the nearby stations as listed in Table 1. The DCP loggers on the other hand, provide a value or data point every 5- or 15- minutes. The rain gage using a DCP logger does not show any such difference from the instantaneous values pulled from NWIS-WEB.

Errors have been found in each of ARGNXX.WDM prior to WY23. XX represents last two digits of a water year (WY). A WY is the 12-month period, October 1 through September 30, in which it ends. SC17.wdm contains erroneous meteorological data and related flag values thereby. SC17.WDM is removed. User is advised to download SC22.WDM from a link at https://doi.org/10.5066/P14D6FRA.
SC22.WDM contains corrected meteorological data from ARGN23.WDM (Bera, 2024a) for the period from January 1, 1997, through September 30, 2022. This database file also contains the quality-assured and quality-controlled hydrologic data for the period January 1, 1997, through September 30, 2022, processed following the guidelines documented in Bera (2014). While SC17.WDM is available from the author, all the records in SC17.WDM can be found in SC22.WDM as well.

The complete list of missing precipitation data periods and the nearby stations used to fill in those missing periods from October 1, 2016, through September 30, 2017, is given in Table 2. The list of snow affected days of precipitation data and the missing and estimated period of the stage and flow data in SC22.WDM database during the period October 1, 2016, through September 30, 2017, are given in the USGS annual Water Data Report at https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis.

To open the WDM database SC22.WDM user needs to install Sara Timeseries utility described in the section "Related External Resources".

First posted - July 24, 2019 (available from author)

Revised - September 2024

References Cited:

Bera, M., 2024a, Meteorological Database, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P146RBHK.

____ 2024b, Watershed Data Management (WDM) Database (SC22.WDM) for Salt Creek Streamflow Simulation, DuPage County, Illinois, January 1, 1997, through September 30, 2022: U.S. Geological Survey, https://doi.org/10.5066/P14D6FRA.

Bera, M., and Over, T.M., 2018, Meteorological Database, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, January 1, 1948 - September 30, 2017: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7H1318R.

Bera, M., 2014, Watershed Data Management (WDM) database for Salt Creek streamflow simulation, DuPage County, Illinois, water years 2005–11: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 870, 18 p., http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ds870.

Murphy, E.A., and Ishii, A.L., 2006, Watershed Data Management (WDM) Database for Salt Creek Streamflow Simulation, DuPage County, Illinois: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2006-1248, 20 p., http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1248/.