es for each observer. CCI currently
comprises these smoothed values.</p>
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<li>CHANGED: Covariate assignment now uses proper circular buffers for
neighborhood calculations (with 1.5 km radius) instead of the previously
used sinusoidal buffer, which had many locations of high skew across the
globe.</li>
<li>ADDED: Information ab