ess-dive-community/essdive-soil-respiration

New Term: Observation Count

stephpenn1 opened this issue · 0 comments

Submitter: Stephanie Pennington (@stephpenn1 ) on behalf of Kayla Mathes

Justification: Why is this term necessary?
Instruments (e.g. Licor 8100A) ask for an "Observation Count" before starting a chamber-level measurement to represent how many measurement cycles were completed and used to calculate the flux. These cycle measurements are often averaged by the IRGA to produce a flux measurement and can be an indicator of sample size and accuracy.

Proposed definition of new term

  • Term name: Observation Count (Obs_Count)
  • Definition of the term: indicator of how many complete measurement cycles were collected at a given collar
  • Format of the term: numeric
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