oce (version 0.9-13)

levitus: Sea-surface temperature and salinity

Description

Data from the 2009 version of the Levitus Ocean Atlas, in the form of a list containing longitude, latitude, and sea-surface salinity SSS and temperature SST. Missing values, 1E30 in the data files, are here converted to NA.

Usage

data(levitus)

source

NOAA data repository (http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/WOA09/netcdf_data.html)

References

Locarnini, R. A., A. V. Mishonov, J. I. Antonov, T. P. Boyer, H. E. Garcia, O. K. Baranova, M. M. Zweng, and D. R. Johnson, 2010. World Ocean Atlas 2009, Volume 1: Temperature. S. Levitus, Ed. NOAA Atlas NESDIS 68, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 184 pp. Antonov, J. I., D. Seidov, T. P. Boyer, R. A. Locarnini, A. V. Mishonov, H. E. Garcia, O. K. Baranova, M. M. Zweng, and D. R. Johnson, 2010. World Ocean Atlas 2009, Volume 2: Salinity. S. Levitus, Ed. NOAA Atlas NESDIS 69, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 184 pp.

Examples

library(oce)
data(levitus)
par(mfrow=c(2,1))
imagep(levitus$longitude,levitus$latitude,levitus$SST,col=oceColorsJet,zlim=c(-2,30))
imagep(levitus$longitude,levitus$latitude,levitus$SSS,col=oceColorsJet,zlim=c(20,40))