oce (version 0.8-6)

sealevelHalifax: Sea-level data set, from Halifax Harbour

Description

This sample sea-level dataset is the 2003 record from Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia, Canada. Note that Hurricane Juan hit Halifax a half hour before midnight on September 28th of 2003, causing a strong storm surge; see example at plot.sealevel.

Usage

data(sealevelHalifax)

source

The data were downloaded from MEDS.

References

The MEDS archive is at http://www.meds-sdmm.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/meds/Databases/TWL/TWL_inventory_e.htm. An entry to the literature about Hurricane Juan is at http://www.atl.ec.gc.ca/weather/hurricane/juan/.

See Also

The documentation for sealevel-class explains the structure of sealevel objects, and also outlines the other functions dealing with them.

Examples

## How the dataset was created
sealevelHalifax <- read.oce("490-01-jan-2003_slev.csv")
sealevelHalifax[["longitude"]] <- -sealevelHalifax[["longitude"]]
save(sealevelHalifax, file="data/sealevelHalifax.rda")
data(sealevelHalifax)
plot(sealevelHalifax)
plot(sealevelHalifax, which=1, xlim=as.POSIXct(c("2003-01-01","2003-02-01")))