AUTHOR=Kelley Dan E. , Harbin Jaimie , Richards Clark 

TITLE=argoFloats: An R Package for Analyzing Argo Data

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Marine Science

VOLUME=8

YEAR=2021

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles/10.3389/fmars.2021.635922

DOI=10.3389/fmars.2021.635922

ISSN=2296-7745

ABSTRACT=<p>An R package named <italic>argoFloats</italic> 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 <italic>argoFloats</italic> and the <italic>oce</italic> 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 <italic>argoFloats</italic> 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 <italic>argoFloats</italic> package.</p>