[PRE REVIEW]: EddyProfSync: A MATLAB tools for collocating coherent eddy and hydrographic datasets

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Submitting author: @rampatels (Ramkrushnbhai Shaileshbhai Patel)
Repository: https://github.com/rampatels/EddyProfileCollocator
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Version: v1.0.0
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- 10.1016/j.pocean.2011.01.002 may be a valid DOI for title: Global observations of nonlinear mesoscale eddies
- 10.1038/sdata.2015.28 may be a valid DOI for title: A daily global mesoscale ocean eddy dataset from satellite altimetry
- 10.1002/2015jc010950 may be a valid DOI for title: Main eddy vertical structures observed in the four major Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems
- 10.1029/2011jc007134 may be a valid DOI for title: Vertical structure of mesoscale eddies in the eastern South Pacific Ocean: A composite analysis from altimetry and Argo profiling floats
- 10.1029/2022jc018679 may be a valid DOI for title: Stacking of EAC eddies observed from Argo
- 10.1029/2018jc014655 may be a valid DOI for title: Meridional Heat and Salt Transport Across the Subantarctic Front by Cold-Core Eddies
- 10.1002/2015gl066050 may be a valid DOI for title: Recent freshening of the East Australian Current and its eddies
- 10.1175/jtech-d-14-00019.1 may be a valid DOI for title: A new sea surface height–based code for oceanic mesoscale eddy tracking
- 10.5194/essd-14-1087-2022 may be a valid DOI for title: META3. 1exp: a new global mesoscale eddy trajectory atlas derived from altimetry

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@rampatels Thanks for your submission. It looks from the summary of lines of code above that the code making up the package — MATLAB with 197 lines of code — is smaller than our amount such that I should desk reject this submission (https://joss.readthedocs.io/en/latest/submitting.html#substantial-scholarly-effort). Am I missing some more code associated with this submission?

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@rampatels I would have preferred to hear back from you first but I'll go ahead and reject this based on having too few lines of code since there are fewer than 300 lines of code (https://joss.readthedocs.io/en/latest/submitting.html#substantial-scholarly-effort).

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[rampatels]

@rampatels Thanks for your submission. It looks from the summary of lines of code above that the code making up the package — MATLAB with 197 lines of code — is smaller than our amount such that I should desk reject this submission (https://joss.readthedocs.io/en/latest/submitting.html#substantial-scholarly-effort). Am I missing some more code associated with this submission?

I apologise for being on my annual leave after the submission of EddyProfSync and did not expect this fast turn around.
I humbly request you to reconsider this work.
The original code was more than 1000 LOC, but my beta user colleague ran it on Southern Ocean scale data and found that it was taking an enormously long time. So, I had to optimise.
To this end, I divided EddyProfSync into several chunks, which reduced the size of src files and fast. This is achieved by removing redundant for loops and other recursive stuff via introduction of subfunctions. Then, I omitted the preprocessing step and provided them in the \utils directory, as my original intent to simply focus on Argo data and META eddies. But to make it even more generalise and include CTD profiles, as it is a focus of my current research. This even further divides the original code and allow user to apply this software to their choice of instrument in preprocessing through tutorials and make actual code independent of data source. That is why the \src files are too short as per the JOSS guidelines but other part of the scripts are in \utils directory which accounts for four most common sources of data used for mesoscale eddy research.
Furthermore, I have written tutorials in .ipynb for better documentation, which uses MATLAB kernel. So the tutorial code is in .ipynb.
Thank you for the opportunity.
Ram