Bathymetry {marelac}R Documentation

World Bathymetric Data

Description

This dataset contains the elevation of sea (bathymetry) and land (hypsometry) across the globe at 1 degree intervals. Dataset as used by Andersson et al. (2004).

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 PMJ, Middelburg J, Soetaert K and 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 2.0 Index]