As a user, I want to evaluate total water level forecasts from the NWM served via WRDS

[HankHerr-NOAA]

Example data in netCDF can be found in Nomads (is this public?):

https://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/data/nccf/com/nwm/prod/

Look for "coastal" data sets for example netCDF files. For WRDS, they serve the data by NWS location id. A request looks like this:

https://[WRDS]/api/nwm_twl/v1.0/total_water_level/medium_range/nws_lid/THOM1/

Example response is below. The response may change: I mentioned to the WRDS team that "nws_station_id" is used instead of "nws_lid", which makes it inconsistent with other APIs. I was told they would look into that.

When asked why data is obtained by NWS lid and not NWM feature, I was told that's how they receive the data. In the netCDF they are given SCHISM node ids which they associate with NWS location ids through a mapping of some kind. Its all magic to me.

No user is currently asking for this capability, so its low priority. If a user asks for it, we'll up the priority.

Thanks,

Hank

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            "total_request_time": 9.572962999343872
        },
        "_documentation": "http://WRDS/docs/rfc_forecast/v1.0/swagger/",
        "deployment": [
            {
                "api_url": "https://WRDS/api/nwm_twl/v1.0/total_water_level/medium_range/nws_lid/THOM1/",
                "stack": "dev",
                "api_version": "v1.0.0",
                "nwm_version": "National Water Model v3.0"
            }
        ],
        "_warnings": [],
        "variable": {
            "name": "total_water_level",
            "configuration": "medium_range",
            "unit": "feet"
        },
        "value_set": [
            {
                "nws_station_id": "THOM1",
                "reference_time": "2025-02-27T00:00:00Z",
                "datum": "NAVD88",
                "values": [
                    {
                        "time": "2025-02-27T01:00:00Z",
                        "value": 1.312
                    },
                    {
                        "time": "2025-02-27T02:00:00Z",
                        "value": 3.15
                    },
... SNIP ...
                    {
                        "time": "2025-03-08T23:00:00Z",
                        "value": 4.987
                    },
                    {
                        "time": "2025-03-09T00:00:00Z",
                        "value": 3.707
                    }
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            }
        ]
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}