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PROCESS
1. In Excel:
- move notes from excel margins to notes column 17-present
2. In R:
- import data
- remove extra rows and columns
- fix date and time data
- change variable names and aggregate tables
- quality assurance:
- remove white space
- make sure all missing values are NA
- check for characters in number columns
- change T to trace column (or 0)
- make cloud types consistent and replace with full types
- check for invalid cloud types and replace with NA
- add flag column for bounds checking
- standardize flags across datasets
- temp: check simple reasonable range
- flag for potential instrument change
- check number precision based on metadata
- export as CSV
3. Metadata
- compile metadata sources
- check that all notes from Adam via email have been factored in
- generate EML