DOI: 10.5066/p13jn3yy
title: Watershed Data Management (WDM) Database (SC23.WDM) for Salt Creek Streamflow Simulation, DuPage County, Illinois, January 1, 1997, through September 30, 2023

description: This data release (DR) is the update of the U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase DR (Bera, 2024b), with the processed data for the period October 1, 2022, through September 30, 2023. This DR describes the watershed data management (WDM) database file SC23.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 Salt Creek watershed in DuPage County, Illinois, as described in Bera (2014). Hourly precipitation and hydrologic data for the period October 1, 2022, through September 30, 2023, are processed following the guidelines described in Bera (2014) and Murphy and Ishii (2006) and appended to SC22.WDM (Bera, 2024b) and renamed as SC23.WDM.

Meteorological data (wind speed, solar radiation, air temperature, dewpoint temperature, and potential evapotranspiration) from October 1, 2022, through September 30, 2023, are copied from ARGN23.WDM (Bera, 2024a) and uploaded to SC23.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 (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 near-real-time streamflow simulation system. Data from DSN 107 and 801-810 are copied from this WDM and stored in the SC23.WDM. DSN 107 and 801-810 in the SC23.WDM are updated with the data through September 30, 2023. Data in DSN 5400 (water-surface elevation at the Elmhurst Quarry at Elmhurst, Illinois) and 5700 (water surface elevation at Thorndale Avenue in Wood Dale, Illinois) are copied and updated through September 30, 2023, similarly (Murphy and Ishii, 2006). The Gage at Thorndale Avenue in Wood Dale, Illinois is maintained by DuPage County Stormwater Department.

The complete list of missing precipitation data periods and the nearby stations used to fill in those missing periods from October 1, 2022, through September 30, 2023, is given in Table1.csv. This file is in the comma separated values (CSV) file format and can be downloaded from this landing page. The list of snow affected days of precipitation data and the missing and estimated period of the stage and flow data in SC23.WDM database during the period October 1, 2022, through September 30, 2023, are given in the USGS annual Water Data Report at https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis.

To open the WDM database SC23.WDM the user may use the Sara Timeseries Utility executable file attached in this page. Table1.csv can be opened with any text editor or Microsoft Excel.

References Cited:

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

Bera, M., 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 data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P14D6FRA.

Bera, M., and Ortel, T.W., 2018, Processing of next generation weather radar-multisensor precipitation estimates and quantitative precipitation forecast data for the DuPage County streamflow simulation system: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2017–1159, 16 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20171159.

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., https://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., https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1248/.