oceanExample: Ocean Color Observations

In rcage: Regionalization of Multiscale Spatial Processes

Ocean Color Observations

Description

This dataset is a sample from SeaWiFS Ocean Color Satellite Observations taken over the coastal Gulf of Alaska from 1998 to 2001 and ROMS Ocean Model. Data are provided only to facilitate illustrative examples.

Usage

data(oceanExample)

Format

oceanExample contains 2 objects:

ocean

A SpatialPointsDataFrame containing 5255 points containing the following 6 columns:

X1

intercept

X2

ROMS ocean model output for chlorophyll

X3

ROMS ocean model output for sea surface temperature

X4

ROMS ocean model output for Sea Surface Height (SSH)

CHA

SeaWiFs satellite ocean color data.

sigma2

sample variance

oceanKnots

A 170x2 matrix of knots in long/lat for the region spanned by data set ocean

References

Leeds, W.B., Wikle, C.K., and Fiechter, J. (2014). Emulator-assisted reduced-rank ecological data assimilation for multivariate dynamical spatio-temporal processes. Statistical Methodology, 17, 126–138.

Wikle, C. K., Milliff, R. F., Herbei, R., and Leeds, W. B. (2013). Modern statistical methods in oceanography: A hierarchical perspective. Statistical Science, 28, 466-486.

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