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id="docs-internal-guid-422987d2-7fff-0bb5-c74e-9c65059231fe"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Dear Data Manager of Climate and Hydrology Database Projects,</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">I am Ryoko Araki, a Master’s student in Hydrology at San Diego State University. </span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">I am writing about the at KEW data from the website (</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">URL: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://climhy.lternet.edu/">https://climhy.lternet.edu/</a></span>) where you are listed as the contact person. I am working on soil moisture dynamics analysis at Southern Sierra CZO, and am hoping to use CLIMDB precipitation data, as Bales et al. (2011) used the data. </span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">When I tried to download the data from the website, only daily data were available. Is it possible for me to request the original 15 min precipitation data? </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Stations: provM10 and uprovM15 at KEW</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Data: precipitation
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</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Period: 1 Jan 2008 to 31 Dec 2015</span></p>
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Best regards,
Ryoko Araki
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Ryoko Araki
MSc Watershed, Department of Geography,
San Diego State University
Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:raraki8159@sdsu.edu">raraki8159@sdsu.edu</a>
May reply from <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ry4ku@gjmp.xii.jp/@gjmp.sakura.ne.jp">ry4ku@gjmp.xii.jp/@gjmp.sakura.ne.jp</a>
Phone: +1-619-913-3086
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