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15. Deleting a Break Point

Note: For MAT data, deleting a break point will remove the break point for that date on both minimum and maximum temperature plots.

The effect of deleting a break point between two segments that already have correction factors is that the segment before and after the break point are merged together and the correction factor for the new segment is the value of the before the deleted break point. For example:

Before deleting the break point j:

Segment Id	Starting Point	Ending Point	Correction Factor
1	i	j	cf1
2	j	k	cf2
3	k	l	cf3

After deleting the break point j:

Segment Id	Starting Point	Ending Point	Correction Factor
1	i	k	cf1
3	k	l	cf3

Only one break point can be deleted at a time. To delete another break point, the user must select the Delete option again.

The order of doing add(s), delete(s) and/or move(s) will result in different correction factors for the same final segments if correction factors are not recalculated for all segments that are effected by the operations. See Appendix 2 for more details.