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)

[Package oce version 0.9-18 Index]