For Cast Scalar Multi-Profile Plot and Aligned and Depth-Binned Profile Data (On-Demand) data products on Conductivity Temperature Depth devices
Selecting non-default values for either the Cast Processing Bin Size or Cast Processing Percent Acceptance for Bin will result in Aligned and Depth Binned data being calculated on the fly from cleaned raw data and will take longer to generate a data product as a result. Files that contain data calculated on the fly will have "-onTheFly" in their filename, and the ProcessingDate header information will be the time of file generation in UTC. For files calculated on the fly with no binning selected then the column labels will contain "aligned" after the sensor name. For files calculated on the fly with binning selected the column labels will contain "aligned and depth-binned" after the sensor name.
Cast Processing Bin Size
This data product option controls the size of the bins the data is averaged into in meters. The default bin size is one-meter bins. Data is only averaged into its corresponding bin if the number of data points within the bounds of a bin with a QAQC flag of 1 meets the percent acceptance threshold (the default percent acceptance value is 70%). The bin size can be user set between zero meters to ten meters. The "No Binning" option can also be selected which will result in the data not being averaged.
For example, a bin size of 2 meters will have bin bounds from 1m to 3m, 3m to 5m, 5m to 7m, etc. The data within these depth bounds are averaged into one value if the percent acceptance threshold is met, which places the averaged values at 2m, 4m, 6m, etc.
Default - Oceans 3.0 API filter: dpo_binSize=-1
No Binning - Oceans 3.0 API filter: dpo_binSize=-2
Configurable Bin Size - Oceans 3.0 API filter: dpo_binSize=0 to dpo_binSize=10
Cast Processing Percent Acceptance for Bin
This data product option controls the percent acceptance threshold applied to data during the binning process. The default percent acceptance value is 70%. Data is only averaged into its corresponding bin if the number of data points within the bounds of a bin with a QAQC flag of 1 meets the percent acceptance threshold which is user-configurable with this data product option. The percent acceptance value can be set between zero percent to one hundred percent.
For example, if 7 data points out of 10 in a bin have a QAQC flag of 1 and the percent acceptance threshold is set to 70% the averaged value for the bin will be calculated from the 7 data points with a QAQC flag of 1. If the percent acceptance value is 80% then no value will be calculated for the bin as less than 80% of the data within the bin is has a QAQC flag of 1.
Default - Oceans 3.0 API filter: dpo_percentAcceptance=-1
Configurable Percent Acceptance - Oceans 3.0 API filter: dpo_percentAcceptance=0 to dpo_percentAcceptance=100