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README for snow meltwater lysimeter/tipping bucket data
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Manda Chasteen, 09/11/2025


The lysimeter tipping buckets were replaced during the fall 2024 TLC (approx. 09/15/2024)
-- Old tipping buckets corresponded to 0.08 L / tip
-- New tipping buckets are 0.1 L / tip

-- The data logger file was not updated in fall 2024 to reflect this change, leading to an incorrect
   conversion between number of tips and meltwater volume
-- The logger file was updated with this correction on 09/11/2025

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As of 09/11/2025, the meltwater data in the MySQL database has been retroactively updated for the period 
after 09/15/2024 by scaling as follows:


def scale_tipping_bucket(data):
    '''
    Scale tipping bucket data to depict 0.1 L per tip instead of 0.08 L per tip
    -- i.e., multiply runoff data by 1.25
    '''
    return data * 1.25


However, the meltwater data in the raw files (i.e., in 2024/logger_data/raw and 2025/logger_data/raw have NOT been updated.
Scaling is needed if using the meltwater observations from these files between 09/15/2024 and 09/11/2025