adp {oce}R Documentation

ADP (acoustic-doppler profiler) dataset

Description

This is a sampling of measurements made with an upward-pointing ADP (acoustic doppler current profiler) manufactured by Teledyne-RDI, as part of the St Lawrence Internal Wave Experiment.

Usage

data(adp)

Author(s)

Dan Kelley

Source

This file was created with the following command (which uses a large file that is not provided with the package). Note the use of UTC, to match how the instrument was set up.

adp <- read.oce("~/SL08F001.000", 
                from=as.POSIXct("2008-06-26", tz="UTC"),
                to=as.POSIXct("2008-06-27", tz="UTC"), 
                by="30:00")

See Also

See read.adp for notes on the contents of adp objects, and for functions to work with them.

Examples

library(oce)
data(adp)
adp.enu <- adp.xyz2enu(adp.beam2xyz(adp))

# Plot overview images
plot(adp.enu)

# Plot diagnostic timeseries.  Angles should be constant for a mooring.
plot(adp.enu, which=13:18)

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