oce (version 0.9-18)

sectionGrid: Grid a section

Description

Grid a section, by interpolating to fixed pressure levels.

Usage

sectionGrid(section, p, method="approx", debug=getOption("oceDebug"), ...)

Arguments

section

a section object containing the section to be gridded.

p

optional indication of the pressure levels to which interpolation should be done. If this is not supplied, the pressure levels will be calculated based on the typical spacing in the ctd profiles stored within section. If <

method

the method to use to decimate data within the stations; see ctdDecimate, which is used for the decimation.

debug

a flag that turns on debugging. The value indicates the depth within the call stack to which debugging applies. For example, read.adv.nortek() calls read.header.nortek(), so that read.adv.nortek(...,debu

...

optional arguments to be supplied to ctdDecimate.

Value

• An object of class "section" that contains stations whose pressure values match identically.

Details

The "approx", "boxcar" and "lm" methods are described in the documentation for ctdDecimate, which is used to do this processing. The default "approx" method is best for bottle data, the "boxcar" is best for ctd data, and the "lm" method is probably too slow to recommend for exploratory work, in which it is common to do trials with a variety of "p" values.

See Also

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

Examples

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