argoFloats: An R Package for Analyzing Argo Data

argoFloats: An R Package for Analyzing Argo Data

An R package named argoFloats has been developed to facilitate identifying, downloading, caching, and analyzing oceanographic data collected by Argo profiling floats. The analysis phase benefits from close connections between argoFloats and the oce package, which is likely to be familiar to those wh...

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Main Authors: Dan E. Kelley, Jaimie Harbin, Clark Richards
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Marine Science
Subjects:
oceanography
Argo float
R language
computing
data processing
quality control
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2021.635922/full
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spelling doaj-4132ed0c727948149ebeb5456d6cae8e2021-05-04T06:18:41ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Marine Science2296-77452021-05-01810.3389/fmars.2021.635922635922argoFloats: An R Package for Analyzing Argo DataDan E. Kelley0Jaimie Harbin1Clark Richards2Clark Richards3Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, CanadaBedford Institute of Oceanography, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Dartmouth, NS, CanadaDepartment of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, CanadaBedford Institute of Oceanography, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Dartmouth, NS, CanadaAn R package named argoFloats has been developed to facilitate identifying, downloading, caching, and analyzing oceanographic data collected by Argo profiling floats. The analysis phase benefits from close connections between argoFloats and the oce package, which is likely to be familiar to those who already use R for the analysis of oceanographic data of other kinds. This paper outlines how to use argoFloats to accomplish some everyday tasks that are particular to Argo data, ranging from downloading data and finding subsets to handling quality control and producing a variety of diagnostic plots. The benefits of the R environment are sketched in the examples, and also in some notes on the future of the argoFloats package.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2021.635922/fulloceanographyArgo floatR languagecomputingdata processingquality control
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author Dan E. Kelley
Jaimie Harbin
Clark Richards
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Clark Richards
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argoFloats: An R Package for Analyzing Argo Data
Frontiers in Marine Science
oceanography
Argo float
R language
computing
data processing
quality control
author_facet Dan E. Kelley
Jaimie Harbin
Clark Richards
Clark Richards
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title argoFloats: An R Package for Analyzing Argo Data
title_short argoFloats: An R Package for Analyzing Argo Data
title_full argoFloats: An R Package for Analyzing Argo Data
title_fullStr argoFloats: An R Package for Analyzing Argo Data
title_full_unstemmed argoFloats: An R Package for Analyzing Argo Data
title_sort argofloats: an r package for analyzing argo data
publisher Frontiers Media S.A.
series Frontiers in Marine Science
issn 2296-7745
publishDate 2021-05-01
description An R package named argoFloats has been developed to facilitate identifying, downloading, caching, and analyzing oceanographic data collected by Argo profiling floats. The analysis phase benefits from close connections between argoFloats and the oce package, which is likely to be familiar to those who already use R for the analysis of oceanographic data of other kinds. This paper outlines how to use argoFloats to accomplish some everyday tasks that are particular to Argo data, ranging from downloading data and finding subsets to handling quality control and producing a variety of diagnostic plots. The benefits of the R environment are sketched in the examples, and also in some notes on the future of the argoFloats package.
topic oceanography
Argo float
R language
computing
data processing
quality control
url https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2021.635922/full
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