oce (version 0.9-14)

topoWorld: Global topographic dataset at half-degree resolution

Description

Global topographic dataset at half-degree resolution, created by decimating the ETOPO5 dataset.

Usage

data(topoWorld)

source

The ETOPO5 dataset was downloaded in late 2009 from the NOAA website, and decimated from 1/12th degree resolution to 1/2 degree resolution.

References

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/relief/ETOPO5/TOPO/ETOPO5/

See Also

Created with as.topo in the Oce package.

Examples

library(oce)
data(topoWorld) 
plot(topoWorld, location=NULL)