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Gauging station data for all WSV-run gauging stations along Elbe and Rhine

Source: R/data.R
df.gauging_station_data.Rd

This dataset contains gauging station data for the gauging stations along Elbe and Rhine operated by the waterway and shipping administration (Wasserstraßen- und Schifffahrtsverwaltung (WSV)). The data were originally obtained from https://pegelonline.wsv.de/gast/start and are updated anually.

Usage 

df.gauging_station_data

Format

A data.frame with 70 rows and 13 variables:

id

continuous numbering (type integer).

gauging_station

name of the gauging station (type character). It is used as JOIN field for dataset df.gauging_data.

uuid

of the gauging station in the PEGELONLINE system (type character).

agency

of the waterway and shipping administration in charge of the respective gauging station (type character).

km

official stationing of the gauging station (type numeric).

longitude

of the gauging stations location (WGS1984, type numeric).

latitude

of the gauging stations location (WGS1984, type numeric).

mw

mean water level of the gauging station (m relative to the gauge zero, type numeric).

mw_timespan

timespan used to derive the gauging stations mean water level (type character).

pnp

the gauge zero relative to sea level (NHN (DHHN92), type numeric).

data_present

logical to separate TRUE (real) from section structuring FALSE gauging stations.

km_qps

corrected stationing used for the water level computations of waterLevel and waterLevelPegelonline (type numeric).

river

the gauging station is located on (type character).

References

Wasserstraßen- und Schifffahrtsverwaltung des Bundes (WSV) (2022). “PEGELONLINE.” https://pegelonline.wsv.de/gast/start.