Oceans {marelac}

Useful Characteristics of the Oceans

Description

Surface area and volume of the world's oceans

Usage

Oceans

Format

A list specifying the value, units, and a description of each quantity.

Author(s)

Karline Soetaert <[e-mail]>

References

Sarmiento JL and Gruber N, 2006. Ocean Biogeochemical Dynamics. Princeton University Press, Princeton. p 85.

See Also

AtomicWeight, Bathymetry, Constants, earth_surf

Examples

data.frame(cbind(acronym = names(Oceans),
           matrix(ncol = 3, byrow = TRUE, data = unlist(Oceans),
           dimnames = list(NULL, c("value", "units", "description")))))