oce (version 0.9-14)

section: Hydrographic section

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(section)

source

This is based on a WOCE file downloaded from http://cchdo.ucsd.edu/data/onetime/atlantic/a03/a03_hy1.csv.

See Also

The documentation for section-class in the Oce package explains the structure of section objects, and also outlines the functions dealing with them.

Examples

library(oce)
# Gulf Stream
data(section)
GS <- subset(section, 109<=stationId&stationId<=129)
GSg <- sectionGrid(GS, p=seq(0, 5000, 100))
plot(GSg, map.xlim=c(-80,-60))