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neilh20 wrote a new post 10 years ago
As part of a team in 2013 I worked on a remote river monitoring project, with partners Cemar.org and a local chapter of The Nature Conservancy. This was related, but not part of and in a different watershed, […]

Welcome to EnviroDIY, a community for do-it-yourself environmental science and monitoring. EnviroDIY is part of WikiWatershed, an initiative of Stroud Water Research Center designed to help people advance knowledge and stewardship of fresh water. neilh20 wrote a new post 10 years ago
As part of a team in 2013 I worked on a remote river monitoring project, with partners Cemar.org and a local chapter of The Nature Conservancy. This was related, but not part of and in a different watershed, […] 
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on first look at your data I assumed the diurnal fluctuation of the stream level was due to evapotranspiration during the day of streamside trees and then the lack there of at night — it seems the pattern holds as expected
I have seen that in other gauged sites particularly where this is a lot of upstream forest — cheers!
Paul
Hi Paul
Thanks for the comment. Yes that’s the intent – find out how much the stream is varying, which could be the diurnal fluctuation of the stream level, or other temperature dependent measurement errors.
In this case – the logger uses 4-20mA and a static resistor is used to simulate the sensor – holding the apparent reading relatively constant while the air temperature fluctuating quite severely 30C over a day.
This is an acceptance test on the U30 logger to verify it doesn’t introduce unexpected temperature error as per its specification.
In this case the logger + resistor induced variation across the day is 0.004′ ~ which is the limit of the ADC 12bit specification.
So the loggers are in good shape.
regards