R/azmpdata.R

In casaultb/azmpdata: A data package to share derived metrics from AZMP research documents

#' azmpdata: A package providing data products derived from data collected as part of
#' The Atlantic Zone Monitoring Program (AZMP).
#'
#' The azmp package provides three categories of data products:
#' physical, biological and chemical variables.  For a complete list of
#' variables, use library(help = "azmpdata").
#'
#' @section Physical variables:
#' The physical variables include basic oceanographic variables (temperature, salinity,
#' density) and additional derived variables such as parameters of the cold intermediate
#' layer (CIL), sea-ice parameters (area, volume, duration and timing), sea surface height
#' and seas surface temperature as measured by remote sensing.
#'
#' @section Biological variables:
#' The biological variables include chlorophyll, phyto- and zooplankton
#' abundance, and zooplankton biomass. Parameters of the spring phytoplankton bloom
#' as estimated from remote sensing surface chlorophyll are also included.
#'
#' @section Chemical variables:
#' The chemical variables include main nutrients (nitrate, silicate and phosphate).
#'
#' @section Other variables:
#' Other variables of relevance for multivariate data analysis are also included. They
#' include air temperature, North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and river fresh water flux.
#'
#' @docType package
#' @name azmpdata
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