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16. Moving a Break Point

For MAT data, moving a break point from one date to another will occur in both the minimum and maximum temperature plots.

The effect of moving a break point is that the segments before and after the break point have their range changed, but the correction factors for the segments stay the same. For example:

Before moving 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 moving the break point j:

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

Only one break point can be moved at a time. To move another break point, the user must select the Move 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.