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victor.kabay  
#1 Posted : Tuesday, May 20, 2014 9:40:16 PM(UTC)
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Hello

I have been trying to plot maximum soil chemical concentrations for a given chemical as contours in Surfer. Whilst the contours appear in surfer as requested, the concentrations are consistently incorrect, and are in fact always lower than the maximum at each location.

I speculate that this may be due to the fact that ESdat or surfer are averaging the concentrations of all samples collected at each location (e.g. samples collected at various depths). If this is correct (and I am really not sure that it is), is there any way to ensure that only the maximum pollutant concentration at each location is actually plotted.

 Cheers 

Warwick Wood  
#2 Posted : Tuesday, May 20, 2014 11:19:57 PM(UTC)
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It may be that if multiple concentrations are present at each location that some averaging is happening in the gridding.

You can view the data that ESdat is exporting to Surfer if you export with the "Plot Data Points" option in ESdat, then open the resultant file in Excel.

You can re-grid this data again in Surfer using different Surfer gridding options.  Surfer has various options for managing duplicate results at a single point, ESdat just uses the default Surfer option.

 

Regards,

Warwick

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