section {oce}R Documentation

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)

Author(s)

Dan Kelley

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

## Not run: 
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))

## End(Not run)

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