usa-open-data-connectors

Useful for

Use cases llm-inferred

Flood-frequency method testing against USGS annual peak streamflow (St. Louis gauge only) · Sea-level context for US coastal projects from NOAA CO-OPS monthly mean sea level · Comparative US flood precedent research using FEMA disaster declarations

Audience llm-inferred

hydrologists · flood consultants · GIS analysts · researchers working on US data

Limitations

Constraints llm-inferred

US public data only; no UK sources. The registry 'regions' field says 'Global', which the docs do not support. · Narrow water coverage: usgs-peak-streamflow covers only St. Louis, and sea-level and temperature sources are national-level series. · Python and Ruby ports still use New Zealand sources; porting to US sources is follow-up work. · Upstream terms apply: NCBI/NLM services attach their own terms, and US public domain does not hold everywhere. · Live API dependence: builds use committed fixtures, and live smoke tests are opt-in (RUN_SMOKE=1). · Failures from rate limiting (HTTP 429), server errors (HTTP 5xx) and network issues are marked retryable; each request times out after 30 seconds. · 'COUNTRY.md' appears in the tools list but is a documentation file, not a callable tool. · Tool argument schemas are not documented in DOCS.

Example tool calls docs-verified

{
  "tool": "usgs-peak-streamflow",
  "arguments": {}
}

{
  "tool": "noaa-sea-level",
  "arguments": {}
}