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Methods
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Current Methods
Precipitation
Started: 1984-01-01Continuous precipitation amount. Accumulated weekly wet-only precipitation samples. Measurements include precipitation amount, field pH and conductivity, lab pH and conductivity, Ca, K, Mg, Na, NH4, NO3, Cl, SO4, and PO4.
Dataset Fields
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Field Name Caption Description Additional Information conduc conduc Criteria1 Criteria1 Criteria2 Criteria2 Criteria3 Criteria3 daysSample daysSample lastDate lastDate DateTime Date/Time Format: M/D/YYYY hh:mm ppt ppt seas seas Nominal siteID siteID Nominal svol svol yr yr DateTime Date/Time Format: YYYY Ca Ca Ca Concentration
Ratio Units: mg/L
Precision: 0.001Cl Cl Cl concentration
Ratio Units: mg/L Cond Conductivity Ratio Units: ms/cm
Precision: 0.01Crit1 Criteria1 Percentage of the summary period for which there are valid samples.
Interval Units: Crit2 Criteria2 Percentage of the summary period for which precipitation amounts are available either from the rain gage or from the sample volume
Interval Units: Crit3 Criteria3 Percentage of the total measured precipitation associated with valid samples.
Interval Units: Crit4 Crit4 Crit4
Interval Units: Days Days_sampled Number of days included in the summary period.
Interval Units: EndDate EndDate The ending date of the last sample included in the summary period
DateTime Date/Time Format: MM/DD/YYYY FldCond FldCond Field conductivity
Ratio Units: FldpH FldpH FldpH
Ratio Units: K K K concentration
Ratio Units: mg/L Mg Mg Mg concentration
Ratio Units: mg/L Na Na Na concentration
Ratio Units: mg/L NH4 NH4 NH4 concentration
Ratio Units: mg/L NO3 NO3 N03 Concentration
Ratio Units: mg/L pctPptFChem pctPptFChem pctPptFChem
Ratio Units: pH pH negative log of the hydrogen ion concentration as measured at the CAL, in pH units
Ratio Units: Ppt_cm Ppt_cm Total amount of precipitation, in centimeters, measured by the rain gage during the summary period. This value includes precipitation amounts calculated from the sample volumes in cases where the weekly rain gage measurements were unavailable.
Ratio Units: RatioC-A RatioC-A RatioC-A
Ratio Units: SiteID__ SiteID Site Identifier
Nominal SO4 SO4 SO4 concentration
Ratio Units: mg/L Svol_ml Svol_ml Total volume, in milliliters, of precipitation collected by the sampler for VALID samples during the summary period.
Ratio Units: mm StartDate StartDate StartDate
DateTime Date/Time Format: other ValidSamp_F ValidSamp_F ValidSamp_F
Nominal ValidSamp_L ValidSamp_L ValidSamp_L
Nominal Year Year Year
DateTime Date/Time Format: DD/MM/YYYY Br Br Br concentration, mg/L
Ratio Units: mg/L fullChemlab fullChem Number of samples used in calculating the laboratory means. Only VALID samples with complete, valid LABORATORY (CAL) analyses and a valid measurement of precipitation amount (from the rain gage or sample volume) are used.
Interval Units: mg/L Sampling Equipment
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No sampling equipment recorded for this dataset
Site Characteristics
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No site characteristics recorded for this dataset