sealevel.hal {oce}R Documentation

Sea-level data set, from Halifax Harbour

Description

This sample sea-level dataset is the 2003 record from Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia, Canada. Note that Hurricane Juan hit Halifax a half hour before midnight on September 28th of 2003, causing a strong storm surge; see example at plot.sealevel.

Usage

data(sealevel.hal)

Author(s)

Dan Kelley

Source

The data were downloaded from MEDS and then read as follows

sealevel.hal <- read.oce("490-01-jan-2003_slev.csv")

References

The MEDS archive is at http://www.meds-sdmm.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/meds/Databases/TWL/TWL_inventory_e.htm. An entry to the literature about Hurricane Juan is at http://www.atl.ec.gc.ca/weather/hurricane/juan/.


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