sst: Kaplan monthly mean anomaly dataset

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Kaplan monthly mean anomaly dataset

Description

The sst data set contains monthly sea surface temperature anomaly data for the Equatorial Pacific within the lat/lon range 180 W - 70 W and 30 S - 30 N, and spanning the years 1956-2014.

• grid. Dateframe of lon/lat coordinates corresponding to columns of sst$field (5 deg resolution)

• date. Vector of monthly date values corresponding to rows of sst$field

• field. Matrix of sea level pressure values by month and lon/lat position.

Usage

data(sst)

Format

A list consisting of: 1. a dataframe for lon/lat positions, 2. a vector of monthly date values, and 3. a matrix of sst anomaly values by month and lon/lat position (1906 rows, 264 columns)

Source

http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.kaplan_sst.html

Examples

### Ex 1. Plot of single month
library(maps)
data(sst)
plot(sst$grid, col=val2col(sst$field[1000,]), pch=".", cex=20)
map("world", add=TRUE)

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