blt: Barrier Layer Thickness

In mkoohafkan/rremat: Russian River Estuary data collected by the Largier Lab

Description

Calculate the thickness of the barrier layer.

Usage

blt(z, t, s, ...)

Arguments

z	Vector of depths, or 3-column dataframe containing depths in first column, temperatures in the second column and salinities in the third column.
t	Vector of temperatures of same length as z.
s	Vector of salinities of same length as z.
...	Other arguments passed to mld. Note that return.index = FALSE is fixed.

Details

The 'Barrier Layer' is the region between the pycnocline and thermocline. This function identifies the thermocline and pycnocline depths using mld and calculates the thickness of the barrier as the difference the two depths.

Value

The thickness of the barrier layer.

References

Chu, Peter C., and Chenwu Fan. "Maximum angle method for determining mixed layer depth from seaglider data." Journal of oceanography 67.2 (2011): 219-230.

See Also

mld

mkoohafkan/rremat documentation built on July 3, 2021, 12:06 p.m.