[Babase] Rain units and other weather leftovers
Susan Alberts
alberts at duke.edu
Thu Apr 9 11:30:48 EDT 2009
Sorry to be slow getting back to you all on this one, for some reason
it completely slipped past my radar.
I agree with Jeanne; round to nearest mm.
Susan
On Mar 28, 2009, at 2:42 PM, Jeanne Altmann wrote:
> Susan, I would say round to the nearest mm for the records that have
> decimal values from inches conversion; your thoughts?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: babase-bounces at eeblistserv.princeton.edu
> [mailto:babase-bounces at eeblistserv.princeton.edu] On Behalf Of Karl O.
> Pinc
> Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2009 1:47 PM
> To: The Baboon Database Project
> Subject: Re: [Babase] Rain units and other weather leftovers
>
>
> On 03/27/2009 04:19:43 PM, Jeanne Altmann wrote:
>> Thanks Karl. As you know, Tabby won't be back until Tuesday.
>> However,
>> if you need me to try to handle something before then, alert me. :-)
>
> I don't need you to handle it, but you're probably the one who's going
> to handle it anyway. "It" being the question of the fractional
> millimeters of rain measurement that are currently present in the
> data.
> (There's 2 decimal points of precision (1/100th of a mm!) in the data
> Tabby sent.) See the thread:
>
> Subject: [Babase] Rain units and other weather leftovers On 03/26/2009
> 11:19:24 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>
>> Note that RAINGAUGES.Rain is (supposedly) an integral number of
>> millimeters, no decimal point allowed.
>> If we really need fractions of a millimeter then the original
>> measurement was probably in inches and was converted. In that case
>> we
>
>> could consider doing for the rain units what was originally designed
>> for the temperature measurements, store the value as read, have
>> another column for the units, and have a function/view that
>> automatically converts the units and makes them consistent.
>
> Or we just do something like round the data to the nearest even mm.
>
> Karl <kop at meme.com>
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