OceanWind {CircSpatial} | R Documentation |
Ocean wind data from ICOADS for the El Nino years 1972, 1976, 1982, 1987, 1991, 1994, and 1997, January through April, in 1 deg increments for the area of longitude 0.5 deg E to +359.5 deg E by latitude -59.5 deg N to +60.5 deg N. Time of observation = year + month/12. East and north components of wind velocity are in units of 0.01 meters/second.
data(OceanWind)
A data frame with 495,688 observations on the following 5 variables.
year
:x
:y
:u
:v
:
Section J.8 in Appendices.J.PackageDocumentation in the installed folder doc provides additional detail and illustrations.
Subset the data and remove the column "year" prior to imaging by CircDataimage
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http://dss.ucar.edu/pub/coads/forms/msg/msga.form.html
WorldMask
CircDataimage
PlotVectors
data(OceanWind) ## Remove year column wind.subset <- OceanWind[, -1]