rLakeAnalyzer1.11.4.1 package

Lake Physics Tools

approx.bathy

Estimate hypsography curve

buoyancy.freq

Calculates buoyancy frequency.

center.buoyancy

Calculates the center of buoyancy.

cline_calc

Calculate cline of series of segments

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.plot

Plots time series of Lake Number

lake.number

Calculate Lake Number

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 pro...

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 ...

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 th...

Standardized methods for calculating common important derived physical features of lakes including water density based based on temperature, thermal layers, thermocline depth, lake number, Wedderburn number, Schmidt stability and others.

  • Maintainer: Luke Winslow
  • License: GPL (>= 2)
  • Last published: 2019-06-09