Sample section Data

This is from a 1993 occupation of WOCE line A03 that ran westward across the Atlantic at approximately 36 N, ending with a turn to the northwest in the Gulf Stream region.

Usage

data(section)

Source

The following code was used to download the datafile and create the section object.

download.file("https://cchdo.ucsd.edu/data/7872/a03_hy1.csv",
    "a03_hy1.csv")
section <- read.section("a03_hy1.csv",
    sectionId = "a03", institute = "SIO",
    ship = "R/V Professor Multanovskiy",
    scientist = "Vladimir Tereschenkov")

Details

The sampling times in this dataset are not fully sequential. For example, Station 41 is reported to be at 1993-10-03T00:06:00, which, going by station numbers, suggests an error in the reported day. Station 45 seems to have a similar problem. However, the goal here is to represent the data as archived, so no changes are made to the times.

See also

Other datasets provided with oce: adp, adv, amsr, argo, cm, coastlineWorld, ctd, ctdRaw, echosounder, landsat, lisst, lobo, met, ocecolors, rsk, sealevel, sealevelTuktoyaktuk, topoWorld, wind, xbt

Other things related to section data: [[,section-method, [[<-,section-method, as.section(), handleFlags,section-method, initializeFlagScheme,section-method, plot,section-method, read.section(), section-class, sectionAddStation(), sectionGrid(), sectionSmooth(), sectionSort(), subset,section-method, summary,section-method

Examples

library(oce)
# Gulf Stream
data(section)
GS <- subset(section, 113 <= stationId & stationId <= 129)
GSg <- sectionGrid(GS, p = seq(0, 5000, 100))
plot(GSg, span = 1500) # increase span to show more coastline