Search time gaps

Tide gauges, recording tidal height observations, may be subject to occasional outages resulting in gaps in the tidal time series. The time gaps option enables you to search for these gaps. You can enter new data, if needed.

1. Select the Options command.

The Options dialog box is displayed.

2. Enter a value (in minutes) in the Time Gaps box.

3. Click OK.

4. Select the Next Time Gap command.

When the interval (in minutes) between adjacent data points is the same as, or greater than, the Time Gaps value, the adjacent data points to the gap are highlighted in the colour set in Options.

5. Repeat the process, selecting the Next Time Gap command and moving through each data point on the graphed line.

6. Where necessary, enter new data between two values.