Lake Physics Tools

---

Documentation for package ‘rLakeAnalyzer’ version 1.11.4.1

• DESCRIPTION file.
• User guides, package vignettes and other documentation.
• Package NEWS.

Help Pages

rLakeAnalyzer-package	Lake Physics Tools
approx.bathy	Estimate hypsography curve
buoyancy.freq	Calculates buoyancy frequency.
center.buoyancy	Calculates the center of buoyancy.
depth.filter	Data filter to remove soak, heave and upcast
drop.datetime	Find and drop the datetime column from the datatable
epi.temperature	Get volumetrically averaged epilimnion temp
get.datetime	Search for and return the datetime column from a ts data.frame
get.offsets	Gets depths from data frame containing profile info.
hypo.temperature	Get volumetrically averaged hypolimnion temp
internal.energy	Internal energy function (Joules)
lake.number	Calculate Lake Number
lake.number.plot	Plots time series of Lake Number
latesummer	Late Summer Profile
layer.density	Returns the average density of a layer between two depths.
layer.temperature	Returns the average temperature of a layer between two depths.
load.bathy	Import lake bathymetry data.
load.ts	Load timeseries from properly formatted text file.
meta.depths	Calculate the Top and Bottom Depths of the Metalimnion
rLakeAnalyzer	Lake Physics Tools
schmidt.plot	Creates a time series plot of Schmidt's stability
schmidt.stability	Calculate the Schmidt stability
thermo.depth	Calculate depth of the thermocline from a temperature profile.
ts.buoyancy.freq	Calculate the buoyancy (Brunt-Vaisala) frequency for a temperature profile.
ts.center.buoyancy	Calculates the center of buoyancy for multiple temperature profiles.
ts.internal.energy	Calculate physical indices for a timeseries.
ts.lake.number	Calculate physical indices for a timeseries.
ts.layer.temperature	Calculate volume-weighted average water temperature across a range of depths for a timeseries.
ts.meta.depths	Calculate physical indices for a timeseries.
ts.schmidt.stability	Calculate physical indices for a timeseries.
ts.thermo.depth	Calculate physical indices for a timeseries.
ts.uStar	Calculate physical indices for a timeseries.
ts.wedderburn.number	Calculate Wedderburn number for a timeseries.
uStar	Calculates the water friction velocity, uStar
water.density	Estimate Water Density
wedderburn.number	Calculates Wedderburn Number for a lake.
whole.lake.temperature	Get volumetrically averaged whole lake temperature
wtr.heat.map	Plots a heat-map of water temperature.
wtr.heatmap.layers	Plots water temperature heatmap with major limnetic layers indicated
wtr.layer	Exploration of lake water column layers
wtr.lineseries	Creates a line based plot of temperature profile time series
wtr.plot.temp	Creates a time series plot of the thermocline and top and bottom of the metalimnion