Type: Package
Title: Southern Ocean Frontal Distributions (Orsi)
Version: 0.2.0
Description: A data set package with the "Orsi" and "Park/Durand" fronts as 'SpatialLinesDataFrame' objects. The Orsi et al. (1995) fronts are published at the Southern Ocean Atlas Database Page, and the Park et al. (2019) fronts are published at the 'SEANOE' Altimetry-derived Antarctic Circumpolar Current fronts page, please see package CITATION for details.
License: GPL-3
LazyData: TRUE
RoxygenNote: 7.1.1
Depends: sp, R (≥ 2.10)
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, covr
Encoding: UTF-8
VignetteBuilder: knitr
URL: https://australianantarcticdivision.github.io/orsifronts/
BugReports: https://github.com/AustralianAntarcticDivision/orsifronts/issues
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2021-05-04 21:40:48 UTC; mdsumner
Author: Michael D. Sumner [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Michael D. Sumner <mdsumner@gmail.com>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2021-05-04 22:00:03 UTC

Orsi fronts.

Description

The spatial distributions of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current fronts as presented in Orsi, A. H., T. Whitworth III and W. D. Nowlin, Jr., 1995: On the meridional extent and fronts of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, Deep-Sea Res. I, 42, 641-673.

Usage

orsifronts

Format

A SpatialLinesDataFrame with variables: name, front.


Park/Durand fronts.

Description

A dataset containing the locations of the Southern Ocean fronts as determined by Park and Durand.

Usage

parkfronts

Format

A Spatial data frame with five line objects, and the identifiers:

name

long name of the front

front

short name of the front, abbreviation

Source

doi: 10.17882/59800