coast: European coastline from -11 to 0 East and from 43 to 59 North

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Description

The data are longitudes (degrees E) and latitudes (degrees N) defining points that can be joined up to get the European coastline in the rectangle (-11E,43N)-(0E,59N). Discontinuous sections of coast are separated by NA's.

Usage

data(coast)

Format

A data frame with 2 columns.

lon

Longitude in degrees East for points used to define the coast.

lat

Latitude in degrees North for points used to define the coast.

Details

lon, lat together define the co-ordinates of points that can be joined up in order to plot the coastline. The original data come from the NOAA www site given below, but have been substantially thinned, to a much lower resultion than the source.

Author(s)

Simon Wood.

References

Originally from... http://rimmer.ngdc.noaa.gov/coast/

Examples

data(coast)
# plot the entire coast .....
plot(coast$lon,coast$lat,type="l")
# or draw it clipped to  whatever the current plot is....
lines(coast$lon,coast$lat,col="blue")

gamair documentation built on Aug. 23, 2019, 5:03 p.m.