ctd {oce}R Documentation

Sample seawater (CTD) profile

Description

This is sample CTD profile provided for testing. The code in read.ctd was written based on examination of this and similar files.

Usage

data(ctd)

Format

This file is from a Sea-Bird SBE 19 CTD instrument. (There should be a reference to a URL with the data format here, but I have yet to find one. –DEK)

Author(s)

Dan Kelley Dan.Kelley@Dal.Ca

Source

Peter Galbraith acquired these data during the 2002 SLEIWEX field program, part of a Dalhousie/IML cooperative study of internal-wave mixing in the St Lawrence estuary.

References

The Seabird CTD instrument is described at http://www.seabird.com/products/spec_sheets/19plusdata.htm.


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