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Name:	Los Amigos CICRA Manual
Description:	Manual measurements of temperature and precipitation at the Centro de Investigación y Capacitación Rio Los Amigos.
Notes:	Twenty-four hour temperature minima and maxima have been recorded manually every day on a u-shaped mercury thermometer (see station images tab) hung on a tree in closed-canopy forest roughly 50 m from the station clearing. Rainfall data were collected exclusively in the clearing, using an "All-Weather" transparent plastic graduated rain gauge. Note that from December 2000 to April 2002, rainfall and temperature measurements were made at 6 PM. From May 2002 onwards, the measurement hour has been 7 AM. No data was collected between October 1 2004 and October 18 2005.
Operator:	ACCA
Contact Info:	Nigel Pitman Amazon Conservation Association npitman@amazonconservation.org
File Format:	Manual
Latitude:	-12.5686
Longitude:	-70.099
Elevation:	280
Start Date:	2000-11-07
End Date:	2004-09-29
Data Range:	06-Nov-2000 - 21-Apr-2010
Measurement Interval:	daily
Temperature:	u-shaped mercury thermometer with minumum and maximum temperature
Precipitation:	"All-Weather" transparent plastic graduated rain gauge