../cheas/micromet/precip/lcreek/readme.txt

ChEAS micrometeorological station data - Lost Creek precipitation gauge
Location:  46 deg 4.9' N, 89 deg 58.7' W
Elevation:  approx. 480 m above sea level
Prepared by Bruce D. Cook, Penn State Univ. (bcook@essc.psu.edu, 814-865-9617) 

**PLEASE NOTE**  Permission to download this data does not grant permission to 
use the information contained in that file for publication. Please contact the 
owner of the file or the appropriate faculty member before use of any such 
information in a publication. 

FILE STRUCTURE:   annual data files named lcprecYYYY (YYYY=year)
FILE COMPRESSION: gzip (information/software available at http://www.gzip.org)
FILE FORMATS:     comma dilimited ASCII
BAD VALUES:       none 

SAMPLING FREQUENCIES:  0.01 sec resolution

DATA OUTPUT (current): each tip (0.0254 to 0.0147 cm)

DATA ELEMENTS (elements in columns, from left to right):     
fjdate  = fractional Julian date
precip  = cumulative precipitation (cm H2O) 

EQUIPMENT AND SENSORS:
Texas Instruments tipping bucket rain gauge (6" opening; 0.0254 cm per tip)
CSI CS705 snowfall adapter (during winter months; 0.0147 cm per tip)
Onset Event Logger
	
HISTORY:        
12 June 2000.  Installed tipping bucket and began logging precipitation (set
to UT time).

19 July 2000.  Downloaded data to Hobo Shuttle.

4 September 2000.  Downloaded data to Hobo Shuttle.

16 September 2000.  Downloaded data to Hobo Shuttle.

29 November 2000.  Downloaded data to Hobo Shuttle, but shuttle failed; filled 
period between 259 and 335 with data from Willow Creek (which had snowfall 
adapter, also); installed snowfall adapter.

5 March 2001.  Downloaded data to Hobo Shuttle; noticed that Event Logger 
light was not blinking, and the last recorded data was from Julian Day 27; 
period between Julian day 28 and 58 with Willow Creek data (days 58 through 
66 could still be missing).

6 May 2001.  Downloaded data to Hobo Shuttle; removed snowfall adapter.
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16 July 2001. Downloaded data to Hobo Shuttle; replaced Hobo battery that was 
dying with better battery from shuttle.

21 October 2001.  Downloaded data to Hobo Shuttle.

15 November 2001.  Downloaded data to Hobo Shuttle; installed snowfall adapter.

10 January 2002.  Downloaded data to Hobo Shuttle.

6 April 2002.  Downloaded data to Hobo Shuttle; removed snowfall adapter.

9 July 2002.  Downloaded data to Hobo Shuttle.

21 August 2002.  Downloaded data to Hobo Shuttle.

9 November 2002.  Downloaded data to Hobo Shuttle; installed snowfall adapter.

10 May 2003.  Downloaded data to computer; removed snowfall adapter; calibrated.
24 June 2003.  Downloaded data to computer.

31 August 2003.  Downloaded data to computer.

8 December 2003.  Downloaded data to computer; installed snowfall adapter.

15 March 2004.  Downloaded data to computer.

6 May 2004.  Downloaded data to computer; removed snowfall adapter.

16 June 2004.  Downloaded data to computer.

3 September 2004.  Downloaded data to computer.

6 November 2004.  Downloaded data to computer; installed new batteries, snowfall adapter.

11 January 2005.  Downloaded data to computer.

18 March 2005.  Downloaded data to computer.

9 May 2005.  Downloaded data to computer; removed snowfall adaptor.

24 June 2005.  Downloaded data to computer.

28 August 2005.  Downloaded data to computer.

17 November 2005.  Dan Baumann installed snowfall adaptor.

22 December 2005.  Downloaded data to computer.

13 April 2006. Downloaded data to computer; Removed snowfall adapter.