Data Processing: Editing

Because of the majority voting procedure for pressure and temperature and the quality control which Service Argos applied to the position data, the raw data series had few obvious errors. Each one month time series of each variable for each buoy was scanned for outlying points and those detected were deleted. No attempt was made to determine the reason for the outlying points or to try to correct them. Plots of the edited data permitted a visual quality check before further processing was done.