Parameters with Different sample counts

[cmcguire]

Regarding KiWQM samples, I was wondering how to deal with samples that need to be stored together but are measured a different number of times?  We're looking into using KiWQM for storing our snow course data, in which we have 1 measurement for weather and temperature and 10 measurements for snow depth, snow mass, snow crust, and soil conditions. 

We want to be able to pull all this information later in a report for display purposes, so we need this information to be stored in the same location.  What would the best way to handle this scenario be?  @SteveWKISTERS

- T Daniel Dickson

[SteveWKISTERS]

Hi T Daniel Dickson,

Could you please provide an update as to how you decided to store this information based on our discussion?

I believe the verdict was to store the the weather & conditional information as metadata at the Sampling event level, allowing you to combine as many samplings & sample values as needed to cover off the remainder of the snow depth, crust, etc. data.

Best,

Steve with KISTERS

[cmcguire]

Hi Steve,

I had already come up with a solution for the snow courses by the time of our discussion, which was to repeat the weather/temp data for each of the 10 rows.