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oceanExample: Ocean Color Observations

Description

This dataset is a sample from SeaWiFS Ocean Color Satellite Observations taken over the coastal Gulf of Alaska from 1998 to 2001 and ROMS Ocean Model. Data are provided only to facilitate illustrative examples.

Usage

data(oceanExample)

Arguments

Format

oceanExample contains 2 objects:

ocean

A SpatialPointsDataFrame containing 5255 points containing the following 6 columns:

X1
intercept
X2
ROMS ocean model output for chlorophyll
X3
ROMS ocean model output for sea surface temperature
X4
ROMS ocean model output for Sea Surface Height (SSH)
CHA
SeaWiFs satellite ocean color data.
sigma2
sample variance

oceanKnots

A 170x2 matrix of knots in long/lat for the region spanned by data set ocean

References

Leeds, W.B., Wikle, C.K., and Fiechter, J. (2014). Emulator-assisted reduced-rank ecological data assimilation for multivariate dynamical spatio-temporal processes. Statistical Methodology, 17, 126--138.

Wikle, C. K., Milliff, R. F., Herbei, R., and Leeds, W. B. (2013). Modern statistical methods in oceanography: A hierarchical perspective. Statistical Science, 28, 466-486.