limnotools package

limnotools is an R package that implements the split and merge algorithm to high resolution water column profile to identify water column structure, stratification and mixing patterns.

See: limnotools vignette

You can install the development version of limnotools from github with:

devtools::install_github("boshek/limnotools")

Important references

• Pavlidis, T., and S. L. Horowitz, 1974: Segmentation of plan curves.IEEE Trans. Comput., C-23, 860–870.
• Thomson, R. and I. Fine. 2003. Estimating Mixed Layer Depth from Oceanic Profile Data. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 20(2), 319-329.
• Fiedler, Paul C. "Comparison of objective descriptions of the thermocline. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods 8.6 (2010): 313-325.

Releases

• 0.9.0 Initial release
• 0.9.1 Fixed a fatal bug in wtr_layer and wtr_segment that fed incorrect measurement values in the call to by_s_m and by_s_m3