oce (version 0.9-13)

oceans: Geometries of the five world oceans.

Description

Surface areas, average depths, and maximum depths for five world oceans, calculated from the ETOPO-1 dataset. Area is in square metres (converted from square kilometres on the NOAA site), and depths are in metres.

Usage

data(oceans)

source

Data were downloaded from the NOAA website http://ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/etopo1_ocean_volumes.html in October 2012.

References

Amante, C. and B. W. Eakins, ETOPO1 1 Arc-Minute Global Relief Model: Procedures, Data Sources and Analysis. NOAA Technical Memorandum NESDIS NGDC-24, 19 pp, March 2009.

Examples

data(oceans)
dotchart(oceans$Area, rownames(oceans), main="Surface Area [m^2]",
         xlim=c(0, max(oceans$Area)))