oce (version 0.9-18)

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 the WOCE file named a03_hy1.csv, downloaded from http://cchdo.ucsd.edu/cruise/90CT40_1, 13 April 2015.

See Also

The documentation for section-class 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))