oce (version 1.2-0)

tidemConstituentNameFix: Change tidal constituent name from T-TIDE to Foreman convention

Description

This is used by tidem() to permit users to specify constituent names in either the T-TIDE convention (see Pawlowicz et al. 2002) or Foreman convention (see Foreman (1978). There are only two such instances: "MS", which gets translated to "M8", and "UPSI", which gets translated to "UPS1".

Usage

tidemConstituentNameFix(names, debug = 1)

Arguments

names

a vector of character values, holding constituent names

debug

an integer controlling warnings. If this is zero, then no warnings are issued during processing; otherwise, as is the default, warnings are issued for each conversion that is required.

Value

A vector of character values of tidal constituent names, in the Foreman naming convention.

References

Foreman, M. G. G., 1978. Manual for Tidal Currents Analysis and Prediction. Pacific Marine Science Report. British Columbia, Canada: Institute of Ocean Sciences, Patricia Bay.

Pawlowicz, Rich, Bob Beardsley, and Steve Lentz, 2002. Classical tidal harmonic analysis including error estimates in MATLAB using T_TIDE. Computers and Geosciences, 28, 929-937.