US Department of Defense

US Department of Defense Catalog API

Data catalog and discovery

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Operations 6

GET /timeseries/catalog Get Time Series Catalog #

GET /locations/catalog Get Location Catalog #

GET /parameters Get Parameters #

GET /units Get Units #

GET /states Get States #

GET /counties Get Counties #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: USACE Corps Water Management System Data Catalog API
  description: The Corps Water Management System Data API (CDA) is a REST service providing programmatic access to USACE water management data. It supports retrieval of time series measurements, monitoring locations, rating curves, reservoir pool levels, lock data, and operational information across Army Corps of Engineers projects. Public data is accessible without authentication; write operations require an API key.
  version: latest
  contact:
    url: https://cwms-data.usace.army.mil/cwms-data/
  license:
    name: US Government Work
    url: https://www.usa.gov/government-works
servers:
- url: https://cwms-data.usace.army.mil/cwms-data/api/latest
  description: National CWMS Data API Production Server
- url: https://water.usace.army.mil/cwms-data/api/latest
  description: USACE Water Data Production Server
tags:
- name: Catalog
  description: Data catalog and discovery
paths:
  /timeseries/catalog:
    get:
      operationId: getTimeSeriesCatalog
      summary: Get Time Series Catalog
      description: Returns a catalog of available time series identifiers.
      tags:
      - Catalog
      parameters:
      - name: office
        in: query
        description: Filter by USACE district office ID
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: timeseries-id-regex
        in: query
        description: Regular expression pattern to filter time series IDs
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: cursor
        in: query
        description: Pagination cursor from previous response
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: page-size
        in: query
        description: Number of entries per page
        required: false
        schema:
          type: integer
          default: 100
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Time series catalog entries
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/TimeSeriesCatalogResponse'
  /locations/catalog:
    get:
      operationId: getLocationCatalog
      summary: Get Location Catalog
      description: Returns a searchable catalog of all available CWMS locations.
      tags:
      - Catalog
      parameters:
      - name: office
        in: query
        description: Filter by USACE district office ID
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: cursor
        in: query
        description: Pagination cursor
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: page-size
        in: query
        description: Number of entries per page
        required: false
        schema:
          type: integer
          default: 100
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Location catalog entries
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
  /parameters:
    get:
      operationId: getParameters
      summary: Get Parameters
      description: Returns the list of CWMS parameters available for time series and location level queries (e.g., Stage, Flow, Elev, Temp-Water).
      tags:
      - Catalog
      responses:
        '200':
          description: List of available CWMS parameters
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
  /units:
    get:
      operationId: getUnits
      summary: Get Units
      description: Returns the list of measurement units available in the CWMS system.
      tags:
      - Catalog
      responses:
        '200':
          description: List of available units
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
  /states:
    get:
      operationId: getStates
      summary: Get States
      description: Returns the list of US states recognized in the CWMS system.
      tags:
      - Catalog
      responses:
        '200':
          description: List of states
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
  /counties:
    get:
      operationId: getCounties
      summary: Get Counties
      description: Returns the list of US counties with CWMS location data.
      tags:
      - Catalog
      responses:
        '200':
          description: List of counties
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
components:
  schemas:
    TimeSeriesCatalogResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        page:
          type: string
        next-page:
          type: string
        total:
          type: integer
        entries:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
            properties:
              office:
                type: string
              name:
                type: string
              units:
                type: string
              interval:
                type: string
              interval-offset:
                type: integer