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drifter-class: Class for drifter data

Description

Class to store drifter data, with standard slots metadata, data and processingLog.

Arguments

Methods

Data may be accessed as e.g. pt[["time"]], where the string could also be "longitude" or "latitude". The data data are available in "salinity", "temperature" and "pressure", each of which is a matrix with first index corresponding to scan number and the second to profile number. Items in metadata must be specifield by full name, but those in data may be abbreviated, so long as the abbreviation is unique.

See Also

A drifter object may be read with read.drifter or created with as.drifter. Drifter data can be gridded to constant pressures with drifterGrid. Plots can be made with plot.drifter, while summary.drifter produces statistical summaries and show produces overviews. See http://www.argo.ucsd.edu/Gridded_fields.html for some drifter-related datasets that may be useful in a wider context.