riley: Riley's (1946) observation/theory of phytoplankton concentration
Description
riley is a list holding information relating to Riley's (1946) observation and theory of
phytoplankton concentration, used in Chapter 4 of Kelley (2018).
Usage
data(riley, package="ocedata")
Arguments
Details
The elements of riley are as follows.
fig21points is a data frame representing the data shown in Riley's Figure 21. Resulting from
digitization of his graph, this is a list containing day (day in year) and P (phytoplankton
concentration, in grams of Carbon per square meter.
fig21curve is a data frame with columns named day and P, containing a digitized trace of
the curve with which Riley illustrates his numerical solution of the differential equations for
phytoplankton growth.
DEparameters (from Riley's (1946) appendix) is a list containing data about twice per month,
in elements day for the day of the year, Ph for phytoplankton growth rate, R for
phytoplankton respiration rate, and G for the rate at which zooplankton graze on phytoplankton.
The rates are in inverse days.
References
Kelley, Dan E. Oceanographic Analysis with R. 1st ed. 2018. New York, NY: Springer New York:
Imprint: Springer, 2018. tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1007/978-1-4939-8844-0").
Gordon A. Riley, 1946. Factors controlling phytoplankton populations on Georges Bank.
Journal of Marine Research, 6(1): 54-73.