ocedata (version 0.1.8)

oceans: Geometries of the five world oceans.

Description

Surface areas, average depths, and maximum depths for five world oceans, calculated from the ETOPO-1 dataset. Area is in square metres (converted from square kilometres on the NOAA site), and depths are in metres.

Usage

data(oceans)

References

Amante, C. and B. W. Eakins, ETOPO1 1 Arc-Minute Global Relief Model: Procedures, Data Sources and Analysis. NOAA Technical Memorandum NESDIS NGDC-24, 19 pp, March 2009.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(oceans, package="ocedata")
dotchart(oceans$Area, rownames(oceans), main="Surface Area [m^2]",
         xlim=c(0, max(oceans$Area)))
# }