Watershed Data Management (WDM) database for West Branch DuPage River streamflow simulation, DuPage County, Illinois, January 1, 2007, through September 30, 2013

Abstract

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with DuPage County Stormwater Management Department, maintains a watershed data management (WDM) database of hourly meteorological and hydrologic data for use in a near real-time streamflow simulation system. These data are stored daily in the WDM database by USGS staff and are initially provisional and subject to change due to periodic equipment malfunctions and/or weather related issues. This system is used for the management and operation of reservoirs and other flood-control structures in the West Branch DuPage River (WBDR) watershed in DuPage County, Illinois. The WDM database is updated with quality-assured and quality-controlled (QA/QC) meteorological and hydrologic data for each water year (WY) and is named as WBDRXX.wdm where XX represents the last two digits of the WY. The WDM database is a binary, direct-access electronic file (Flynn and others, 1995). It was developed by the USGS to be used with hydrologic and water-quality models and analyses. Data within the WDM database are stored in datasets and each dataset is assigned a number called a dataset number (DSN). The WDM database can be accessed with the ANNIE computer program (Flynn and others, 1995), with the Generation and Analysis of Model Simulation Scenarios (GenScn), an interactive computer program (Kittle and others, 1998), or with Better Assessment Science Integrating point and Nonpoint Sources (BASINS), a multipurpose environmental analysis system (U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2015). This data release describes the WDM file WBDR13.WDM which contains meteorological and hydrologic data collected in and near DuPage County, Illinois. The precipitation data are collected from a tipping-bucket rain-gage network located in and near DuPage County. The hydrologic data (stage and discharge) are collected at USGS streamflow-gaging stations in and around DuPage County. The WDM database WBDR13.WDM is quality-assured and quality-controlled (QA/QC) to ensure the datasets are complete and accurate and contains data from January 1, 2007, through September 30, 2013. The Open File Report Bera (2017) describes the data organization, sources, and QA/QC in detail. The complete list of datasets in WBDR13.WDM database is given in table 2, and a list of dataset attributes is given in Appendix 1 (Bera (2017). Meteorological data other than precipitation (wind speed, solar radiation, air temperature, dewpoint temperature, and potential evapotranspiration) are copied from ARGN14.WDM and stored in this WDM file. Bera and Over (2016) describes the processing of the meteorological data in the database file ARGN14.WDM. References Cited: Bera, Maitreyee, 2017, Watershed Data Management (WDM) database for West Branch DuPage River streamflow simulation, DuPage County, Illinois, January 1, 2007, through September 30, 2013: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2017i?½1099, 39 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20171099. Bera, M., and Over, T. M., 2016, Meteorological Database, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, January 1, 1948 - September 30, 2014: U.S. Geological Survey data release, http://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F7Q52MQG. Flynn, K.M., Hummel, P.R., Lumb, A.M., and Kittle, J.L., Jr., 1995, User's manual for ANNIE, version 2, a computer program for interactive hydrologic data management: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 95i?½4085, 211 p. Kittle, J.L., Jr., Lumb, A.M., Hummel, P.R., Duda, P.B., and Gray, M.H., 1998, A tool for the generation and analysis of model simulation scenarios for watersheds (GenScn): U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 98-4134, 152 p. U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2015. Better Assessment Science Integrating Point and Nonpoint Sources - BASINS Version 4.1. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water, Washington, DC. Available at: www.epa.gov/waterscience/basins/.