MATLAB: Calculate number of hours below a threshold temperature

Question

I have a big timetable with temperature recorded every 10 minutes. I want to calculate the number of hours per day below a threshold temperature. Any ideas? The timetable is important because my original data is missing some timesteps, and I use retime() to fill in the blanks.

I tried using a for loop along with an if statement, but they don't seem to work with timetables.

I also tried converting the timetable back to an array, but ran into difficulties. My guess is that I'm missing the easy way to do this.

Thanks!

Answer 1

I think you should be able to accomplish this by retiming twice; once to fill in any gaps with whatever method you prefer, and the second time to aggregate over each day. If you assume each measurement is representative of a full 10 minutes, then you can simply sum the number of points per day that meet the threshold criteria.

First we build an example timetable with ~10-minute data with some gaps

t = datetime(2018,1,1) + days(0:minutes(10):days(2))';
temp = rand(size(t))*15 - 2;
T = timetable(t, temp);
T = T(rand(size(t))>0.1,:);

Now retime:

dt = minutes(10);
thresh = 0;
T2 = retime(T,'regular', 'linear', 'timestep', dt);
T3 = retime(T2,'daily',@(x) hours(sum(x<thresh)*dt));