Area: ICES statrec/areas

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ICES statrec/areas

Description

ICES statistical rectangles (StatRecs) have been in use since the 1970's, and were first officially referenced in CM document 1977/Gen:3 document 'ICES Statistical Rectangle Coding System'.

ICES statistical rectangles provide a grid covering the area between 36°N and 85°30'N and 44°W and 68°30'E.

Usage

data("Area")

Format

A data frame with 6256 observations on the following 6 variables.

x

a numeric vector

y

a numeric vector

ICESNAME

a character vector: name of the ICES rectangle

Area

ICES area the rectangle belongs to with only main areas and subareas

AREA_KM2

a numeric vector: area of the ICES rectangle in square km

stat_x

a numeric vector: ICES Rectangle lat central point

stat_y

a numeric vector: ICES Rectangle long central point

Area_27

full area definition according to ICES GIS map 20170124

Source

http://www.ices.dk/marine-data/maps/Pages/ICES-statistical-rectangles.aspx

Examples

str(Area)
IBTSNeAtl_map(nl=55,sl=49,out="def",dens=0,leg=F,ICESrect=T)
text(stat_y~stat_x,Area,ICESNAME,cex=.7,font=2)
text(stat_y~stat_x,Area,Area,cex=.6,col=2,pos=1)

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