additional calculations

[wwieder]

Can we provide some simple scripts to provide to users to fill in data in the tarball or the smaller datasets they pull down from the shiny ap? These could include:

• Climate data (from LTER site info, or based on lat-lon & world clim or other datasets),
• Calculated variables (C:N, stocks [when BD and lyr_soc are provided], layer_mid [from layer_top & _bottom], others)?

I'm inclined to merge these calculated data with the column where they belong to avoid the proliferation of column, but maybe we should provide an additional 'flag' to identify where we're calculating these values from the raw data provided.

It would be good to discuss the workflow for this and when (or if) users would interface with these
tools.

[piersond]

@wwieder I'll try to get going on this over the next couple days. Where do you want me to grab climate from?

[wwieder]

Here's the ISRAD approach
https://github.com/International-Soil-Radiocarbon-Database/ISRaD/tree/master/R

[wwieder]

NEON data is already using PRISM data. Not sure how we get access to this?

[wwieder]

see additional thoughts here
lter/soilHarmonization#31

[srearl]

calculated vars are done but do we still want to look into mating climate (or other) data?