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.
The data flags follow the "WHP Bottle"convention, set by
initializeFlagScheme,section-method()
to "WHP bottle"
. This convention
used to be described at the link
https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/woce/woce_v3/wocedata_1/whp/exchange/exchange_format_desc.htm
but that was found to fail in December 2020.
data(section)
This is based on the WOCE file named a03_hy1.csv
, downloaded
from https://cchdo.ucsd.edu/cruise/90CT40_1
, 13 April 2015.
In May 2022, it was discovered that the times in this dataset are not fully sequential, at two spots. This might be a reporting error. Station 41 has time listed as 1993-10-03T00:06:00 and that leads to a time reversal. However, if that time were actually on the day before, then the time reversal would vanish, and the inter-station timing of about 5 to 6 hours would be recovered. A similar pattern is seen at station 45. Of course, this hypothesis of incorrect recording is difficult to test, for data taken thirty years ago.
Other datasets provided with oce:
adp
,
adv
,
amsr
,
argo
,
cm
,
coastlineWorld
,
ctdRaw
,
ctd
,
echosounder
,
landsat
,
lisst
,
lobo
,
met
,
ocecolors
,
rsk
,
sealevelTuktoyaktuk
,
sealevel
,
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