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|            Attribute_Name            |                 Measurement_Scale                  |       ORDER        |             Number_Type             |    Storage_Type    |       UNITS        |                                                                  DESCRIPTION                                                                   |                                 CODES                                 |
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| Daily_AirTemp_Mean_C                 | ratio                                              |                  3 | real                                | f                  | celsius            | derived mean daily temperature (max temp + min temp)/2                                                                                         |                                                                       |
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| Daily_AirTemp_AbsMax_C               | ratio                                              |                  5 | real                                | f                  | celsius            | maximum temperature measurment                                                                                                                 |                                                                       |
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| Daily_AirTemp_AbsMin_C               | ratio                                              |                  7 | real                                | f                  | celsius            | minimum temperature measurement                                                                                                                |                                                                       |
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| Daily_Precip_Total_mm                | ratio                                              |                  9 | real                                | f                  | millimeter         | daily precipitation measured                                                                                                                   |                                                                       |
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| Daily_RH_Mean_Pct                    | ratio                                              |                 11 | real                                | f                  | dimensionless      | percent relative humidity                                                                                                                      |                                                                       |
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| Daily_Windsp_Mean_msec               | ratio                                              |                 13 | real                                | f                  | metersPerSecond    | mean daily wind speed                                                                                                                          |                                                                       |
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| Daily_Winddir_Mean_deg               | ratio                                              |                 15 | real                                | f                  | degree             | mean wind direction                                                                                                                            |                                                                       |
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| Daily_Globalrad_Total_mjm2           | ratio                                              |                 17 | real                                | f                  | megaJouleperSquare | measurement of total incoming solar radiation                                                                                                  |                                                                       |
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| Station                              | nominal                                            |                  2 |                                     | s                  | nominal            | code for meteorological station at the SGS-LTER site 11 as old manual equipment from Internation Biome Project as 12 as CR21X that ran from    | 12                                                                    |
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| Flag_Daily_AirTemp_Mean_C            | nominal                                            |                  4 |                                     | s                  | nominal            | data quality flag for data value with g = good, data quality flag for data value with m = missing, data quality flag for data value with q =   | g,m,q                                                                 |
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| Flag_Daily_AirTemp_AbsMax_C          | nominal                                            |                  6 |                                     | s                  | nominal            | data quality flag for data value with g = good, data quality flag for data value with m = missing, data quality flag for data value with q =   | g,m,q                                                                 |
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| Flag_Daily_AirTemp_AbsMin_C          | nominal                                            |                  8 |                                     | s                  | nominal            | data quality flag for data value with g = good, data quality flag for data value with m = missing, data quality flag for data value with q =   | g,m,q                                                                 |
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| Flag_Daily_Precip_Total_mm           | nominal                                            |                 10 |                                     | s                  | nominal            | data quality flag for data value with g = good, data quality flag for data value with m = missing, data quality flag for data value with q =   | g,m,q                                                                 |
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| Flag_Daily_RH_Mean_Pct               | nominal                                            |                 12 |                                     | s                  | nominal            | data quality flag for data value with g = good, data quality flag for data value with m = missing, data quality flag for data value with q =   | g,m,q                                                                 |
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| Flag_Daily_Windsp_Mean_msec          | nominal                                            |                 14 |                                     | s                  | nominal            | data quality flag for data value with g = good, data quality flag for data value with m = missing, data quality flag for data value with q =   | g,m,q                                                                 |
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| Flag_Daily_Winddir_mean_deg          | nominal                                            |                 16 |                                     | s                  | nominal            | data quality flag for data value with g = good, data quality flag for data value with m = missing, data quality flag for data value with q =   | g,m,q                                                                 |
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| Flag_Daily_Globalrad_Total_mjm2      | date-Time                                          |                 18 |                                     | d                  | nominal            | data quality flag for data value with g = good, data quality flag for data value with m = missing, data quality flag for data value with q =   | g,m,q                                                                 |
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| LTER_site                            | nominal                                            |                  1 | n/a                                 | a                  | nominal            | code for LTER Netowrk Site                                                                                                                     | Shortgrass Steppe LTER site                                           |
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| Date                                 | date-Time                                          |                  3 | n/a                                 | a                  | nominalDay         | date and year of measrument                                                                                                                    | YYYYMMDD                                                              |
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