as.xbt {oce}

Create an xbt Object

Description

Create an xbt Object

Usage

as.xbt(
  z,
  temperature,
  longitude = NA,
  latitude = NA,
  filename = "",
  sequenceNumber = NA,
  serialNumber = ""
)

Arguments

z

numeric vector giving vertical coordinates of measurements. This is the negative of depth, i.e. z is 0 at the air-sea interface, and negative within the water column.

temperature

numeric vector giving in-situ temperatures at the z values.

longitude, latitude

location in degE and degN.

filename

character value naming source file.

sequenceNumber

numerical value of the sequence number of the XBT drop.

serialNumber

character value holding the serial number of the XBT.

Value

An xbt object.

Author(s)

Dan Kelley

See Also

Other things related to xbt data: [[,xbt-method, [[<-,xbt-method, plot,xbt-method, read.xbt.noaa1(), read.xbt(), subset,xbt-method, summary,xbt-method, xbt-class, xbt.edf, xbt