oce (version 0.1-76)

a03: WOCE section a03

Description

This is line A03 (ExpoCode 90CT40_1, with nominal sampling date 1993-09-11). The chief scientist was Tereschenkov of SOI, working aboard the Russian ship Multanovsky, undertaking a westward transect from the Mediterranean outflow region across to North America, with a change of heading in the last few dozen stations to run across the nominal Gulf Stream axis.

Usage

data(a03)

source

http://cchdo.ucsd.edu/data_access?ExpoCode=90CT40_1 (use the BOT link in the Exchange section of this page.)

See Also

This was read with read.section("a03_hy1.csv"), working a data file downloaded from the CCHDO site mentioned above.

Examples

library(oce)
# Gulf Stream (note that section runs east to west)
data(a03)
Gulf.Stream <- subset(a03, indices=124:102)
Gulf.Stream.gridded <- section.grid(Gulf.Stream, p=seq(0, 5000, 100))
data(coastline.world)
plot(Gulf.Stream.gridded, coastline=coastline.world, map.xlim=c(-80,-60))