USGS EcoDrought Stream Discharge, Gage Height, and Water Temperature in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey Data Release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P97ULKSM.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Water Mission Area (WMA) - Ecosystems Mission Area (EMA) EcoDrought project is comprised of interdisciplinary teams in five pilot regions across the country. The over-arching project goal is to measure streamflow in headwater streams and to relate flow variation to stream fish population dynamics. For the catchments located in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, the Virginia/West Virginia Science Center and the New England Water Science Center (NewEngWSC) partnered with the fish ecology group at Leetown Science Center, a part of the EMA’s Eastern Ecological Science Center, in order to establish gaging stations in headwater streams with ongoing ecological data collection and modeling efforts. The project teams installed and maintained in-stream pressure gaging sites including surveying to monitor and account for any movement of the pressure sensor, performing discharge measurements, developing rating curves to relate gage height and discharge, and carrying out routine and emergency maintenance. This data set is comprised of the continuous gage height, discharge, water temperature, air temperature, and air pressure data, as well as discrete discharge measurements and station information, for the sites located in Shenandoah National Park. The date range for this data set is 2018-10-22 through 2021-10-27. Once collected, the continuous gage height data were reviewed and corrected for offsets, instrument movement and instrument drift under the guidance of NewEngWSC Hydrologic Monitoring Program staff. Continuous gage height was converted to a continuous discharge record by relating discrete gage height and discharge measurements with a rating model developed in accordance with USGS WMA standards. Please note that the "EcoDrought_Continuous_TempOnly_VA.csv" data file is 57.0 MB and has 1.1 million rows, meaning it is too large to open and manipulate in Microsoft Excel. Please take caution when working with these data in Excel.