oce (version 0.8-7)

drifter: ARGO drifter dataset

Description

This is an ARGO drifter data object, for drifter 6900388, downloaded in July 2011. These data were collected and made freely available by the International Argo Program and the national programs that contribute to it. Salinity, temperature and pressure are each matrices with first index corresponding to depth, e.g. drifter[["temperature"]][1,] is the surface temperature.

Usage

data(drifter)

source

http://www.usgodae.org/ftp/outgoing/argo/dac/bodc/6900388/6900388_prof.nc

See Also

See drifter-class for notes on the contents of drifter objects, and for functions to work with them.

Examples

# How data were created
drifter <- read.drifter("/data/OAR/6900388_prof.nc")
library(oce)
data(drifter)
summary(drifter)
data(coastlineWorld)
plot(drifter, which="trajectory", coastline=coastlineWorld)