Bathymetry {marelac}R Documentation

World bathymetric data

Description

This dataset, as used by Andersson et al. (2004) contains elevations, m of the world at 1 dg intervals.

Usage

Bathymetry

Format

a list with the bathymetry (depth) and hypsometry (altitude) of the world. It contains:

  • x, the latitude
  • y, the longitude
  • z, the height (m)

    Author(s)

    Karline Soetaert <k.soetaert@nioo.knaw.nl>

    References

    Andersson, H., Wijsman, J., Herman, P., Middelburg, J., Soetaert, K., Heip, C., 2004. Respiration patterns in the deep ocean. Geophysical Research Letters 31, LO3304.

    Examples

    
    par(mar=c(2,2,2,2))
    image(Bathymetry$x,Bathymetry$y,Bathymetry$z,col=femmecol(100),
          asp=TRUE,xlab="dg",ylab="dg")
    contour(Bathymetry$x,Bathymetry$y,Bathymetry$z,asp=TRUE,add=TRUE)
    
    # remove land
    zz     <- Bathymetry$z
    zz[zz>0]<-0
    
    image(Bathymetry$x,Bathymetry$y,zz,col=c(femmecol(100),"black"),asp=TRUE)
    contour(Bathymetry$x,Bathymetry$y,zz,asp=TRUE,add=TRUE)
    

    [Package marelac version 1.1 Index]