[Babase] Rain units and other weather leftovers
Karl O. Pinc
kop at meme.com
Fri Mar 27 16:39:00 EDT 2009
On 03/27/2009 02:26:50 PM, kfenn wrote:
> Karl ,
> Please my replies below.
> Also, we found a few records in your daytime.txt file where the date
> disappeared as part of programming functions (i've got the date in my
> excel sheet). This seems to occur when we have no min max temp
> readings but there is a precip reading. See 5/11/88 and 7/4/89 for
> example.
Thanks. I'll see about fixing that.
>>
> Jeanne looked at some of the high precip measures from the file you
> sent and they were consistent with the hard data so it doesn't appear
> that there are any corrections to make. Yes, they are supposed to be
> in millimeters.
> The value of 84 was after 12 days of missed readings (3/1/89). It's
> not noted in the comments, but I'm sure there are a lot of days like
> that. If an observer didn't write it into the comments, well it
> wouldn't have been entered as a comment. The span tables are
> supposed to address that, right?
Right. (The RAINGAUGES.RGspan and EstRGspan columns.)
> I think we need to have you do programmer magic to slam the date and
> time together during the upload. I didn't see an easy way to do this
> in excel and my experience is that excel can be quirky with date
> manipulations (switching from english to america); I would feel safer
> if you programmed it.
Ok. See previous email. I will meditate on a name too.
Karl <kop at meme.com>
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