ctd {oce}R Documentation

Sample seawater (CTD) profile

Description

This is sample CTD profile provided for testing. It has been pruned by selecting only the portion of the data acquired when the instrument was being lowered through the water column.

Usage

data(ctd)

Format

This file is from a Sea-Bird SBE 19 CTD instrument.

Author(s)

Dan Kelley

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. See link{read.ctd} for the data format.


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