Bathymetry          package:marelacTeaching          R Documentation

_W_o_r_l_d _b_a_t_h_y_m_e_t_r_i_c _d_a_t_a

_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     This dataset, as used by Andersson et al. (2004) contains
     elevations, m of the world at 1 dg intervals.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     Bathymetry

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     A list with the bathymetry (depth) and hypsometry (altitude) of
     the world. It contains:

     _x the latitude,

     _y the longitude,

     _z the height (m).

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     Karline Soetaert <k.soetaert@nioo.knaw.nl>

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     Andersson, H., Wijsman, J., Herman, P., Middelburg, J., Soetaert,
     K., Heip, C., 2004. Respiration patterns in the deep ocean.
     Geophysical Research Letters 31, LO3304.

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     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)

