OceanData: Download and extract oceanographic data from various online...

OceanDataR Documentation

Download and extract oceanographic data from various online sources

Description

OceanData is developed for Canadian Healthy Oceans Network (CHONe) benthic biodiversity and habitat mapping group. It provides wraper functions to download gloabl oceanographic data from various online sources and convert them to native raster files for futher processing. If monthly time-series oceanographic data are downloaded, multi-scale environmental variables can be extracted based on given sampling years, months and spatial coordinates. The environmental variables at various tiem lag (month) and extration radius (km) can be used to optimized bio-environmental or species distribution models. More information about each function can be found in its help documentation.

Details

OceanData's downloading functions read url strings into R. Users can choose functions to download sea inc concentration Get_Arctic_Sea_Ice, primary production Get_Belanger_PP, or Get_Ocean_Prod, near-bottom climatology Get_Bottom_WOA.

...

Author(s)

Chih-Lin Wei <chihlinwei@gmail.com>

References

Chih-Lin Wei (2014). Surrogacy methods & use of global oceanographic databases. DFO Technical Report


chihlinwei/OceanData documentation built on Sept. 26, 2022, 2:47 p.m.