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FIX: Stop inflating pluvio gauge variables by 5x in the column match - #42

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FIX: Stop inflating pluvio gauge variables by 5x in the column match#42
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There was an issue with the accumulations being done over 5 minute periods from the Pluvio instead of the 1 minute timestamps. This is a holdback from when we were doing RadClss over 5 minute periods, so it would only affect the data being currently under review.

Ground instruments matched with resample="sum" were binned into a
hard-coded 5-minute total and then linearly interpolated back onto the
column's 1-minute time grid, so every output step received a whole
5-minute bin. Accumulations came out inflated by exactly the ratio of
the two steps: a 19.29 mm day was written as 96.45 mm.

The sum was also applied indiscriminately to every surviving pluvio
variable, including two rain intensities (mm/hr) and the running bucket
level, none of which may be summed. sgpradclssC1.c0 was reporting a mean
intensity_rt of 139 mm/hr and a bucket_nrt of 3327 mm.

- Integrate only true accumulations (accum_nrt, accum_rtnrt). Rates and
  the bucket level now take the same averaging path as every other
  instrument.
- Regrid accumulations conservatively: integrate to a running total,
  interpolate that onto the column grid, then difference it back. This
  preserves the integral on regular and irregular (radar-based) time
  coordinates alike, and is an exact identity at native resolution.
- Keep gaps missing. The old .sum() skipped NaNs with no min_count, so
  an all-NaN bin reported 0 mm and an outage read as "no rain".
- Fix the closed="right" label. Pandas labels bin (t, t+step] as t, a
  timestamp the bin excludes, shifting data one step early. This also
  moves met, ldquants, vdisquants, wxt, kazr and sonde timing.
- Only close datasets this function opened; _grd_raw was unbound
  whenever DataSet=True, breaking that match_datasets_act path.

Existing c0 files need reprocessing, and the correction is not limited
to accum_nrt.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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