Retrieves catchment characteristics from the Network Linked Data Index. Metadata for these characteristics can be found using `discover_nldi_characteristics()`.
get_nldi_characteristics(nldi_feature, type = "local")
list with names `featureSource` and `featureID` where `featureSource` is derived from the "source" column of the response of get_nldi_sources and the `featureID` is a known identifier from the specified `featureSource`.
character "all", "local", "total", or "divergence_routed".
data.frame containing requested characteristics
# \donttest{
chars <- get_nldi_characteristics(list(featureSource = "nwissite", featureID = "USGS-05429700"))
names(chars)
#> [1] "local"
head(chars$local, 10)
#> characteristic_id characteristic_value percent_nodata
#> 1 CAT_WILDFIRE_2011 0 100
#> 2 CAT_CONTACT 47.28 0
#> 3 CAT_EWT -18.74 0
#> 4 CAT_FUNGICIDE 1.25 0
#> 5 CAT_IEOF 2 0
#> 6 CAT_PET 644.71 0
#> 7 CAT_RECHG 133.18 0
#> 8 CAT_SATOF 2 0
#> 9 CAT_TWI 14.05 0
#> 10 CAT_WB5100_ANN 215.97 0
# }