plot.ctd {oce}R Documentation

Plot seawater (CTD) data

Description

Plot a summary diagram for CTD data.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'ctd':
plot(x,ref.lat=NaN, ref.lon=NaN, grid=TRUE, col.grid="lightgray", ...)

Arguments

x A cdt object, e.g. as read by read.ctd.
ref.lat Latitude of reference point for distance calculation
ref.lon Longitude of reference point for distance calculation
grid Set TRUE to get a grid on all plots.
col.grid color of grid.
... optional arguments passed to plotting functions. A common example is to set df, for use in sw.N2 calculations.

Details

Creates a summary plot for a CTD cast, with a temperature-salinity diagram as well as profiles of temperature, salinity, and density; a table of information about the cast is also plotted.

Value

None.

Author(s)

Dan Kelley Dan.Kelley@Dal.Ca

References

See Also

summary.ctd summarizes the information, while read.ctd scans it from a file.

Examples

library(oce)
data(ctd) 
plot(ctd)

[Package oce version 0.1.67 Index]