US Department of Defense

US Department of Defense Ratings API

Rating curves and tables

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GET /ratings Get Rating Curves #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: USACE Corps Water Management System Data Catalog Ratings 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: Ratings
  description: Rating curves and tables
paths:
  /ratings:
    get:
      operationId: getRatings
      summary: Get Rating Curves
      description: Returns rating curves used to convert gage height (stage) measurements to discharge (streamflow) values. Rating curves are essential for computing streamflow from continuous stage measurements.
      tags:
      - Ratings
      parameters:
      - name: office
        in: query
        description: USACE district office ID
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: rating-id-mask
        in: query
        description: Pattern mask to filter rating IDs
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: start
        in: query
        description: Start of the time window for effective ratings
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: end
        in: query
        description: End of the time window for effective ratings
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: method
        in: query
        description: Rating method (e.g., LINEAR, LOGARITHMIC)
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: format
        in: query
        description: Response format
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - json
          - xml
          default: json
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Rating curves
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object