Neighbors
"Neighbors" is an editing parameter which is useful in regions of
questionable data, where only a fraction of the profiles are still
"good". If there is reason to doubt isolated profiles, then you can
remove them by requiring some number of "neighbors". A requirement of
1 neighbor means that a profile must have a neighbor on each side
(i.e. there should be three adjacent profiles) in order to be
accepted. This parameter was designed for use in editing ADCP data
when the ship was in ice, and is a way of ruthlessly eliminating
unsupported profiles.
Due to its implimentation, requiring neighbors also expands holes. If
you have profiles which have been flagged due to jitter, and you
require "neighbors" greater than zero, gautoedit will remove that many
profiles from each side of the hole, thus widening the gap (increasing
the number of profiles flagged). If the you really wanted to get rid
of the profiles that were flagged, this is a good way of widening the
gap by a known number of profiles without changing the jitter
criterion.
neighbors required: 0
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neighbors required: 3
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