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Diving parameters of weanling Northern Elephant Seals in 2016 and 2018

data_nes.Rd

A list of datasets containing diving parameters for:

  • 6 individuals in 2016

  • 4 individuals in 2018

Usage

data(data_nes)

Format

A list containing one list per year, that itself contains one dataset per individuals.

DATA > YEAR > INDIVIDUAL

  1. 2018 Dataset

    .id

    individual ID

    date

    date and time of the dive

    divenumber

    # of dive

    year

    year of the dive

    month

    month of the dive

    day

    day of the dive

    hour

    hour of the dive

    min

    min of the dive

    sec

    sec of the dive

    juldate

    date as julian date

    maxdepth

    maximum depth reached (m)

    dduration

    dive duration (s)

    botttime

    bottom duration (s)

    desctime

    descent duration (s)

    descrate

    descent rate (m/s)

    asctime

    ascent time (s)

    ascrate

    ascent rate (m/s)

    pdi

    post dive interval (s)

    dwigglesdesc

    # of wiggles in descent phase

    dwigglesbott

    # of wiggles in bottom phase

    dwigglesasc

    # of wiggles in ascent phase

    totvertdistbot

    vertical distance at the bottom (m)

    bottrange
    efficiency
    idz
    lightatbott

    light level at the bottom

    lwiggles
    lightatsurf

    light level at the surface

    lattenuation
    euphoticdepth

    euphotic depth (m)

    tempatsurf

    temperature at the surface (C)

    tempatbott

    temprature at the bottom (C)

    thermoclinedepth

    thermocline depth (m)

    driftdiveindex

    metric that reflects dive characteristics and how likely it is to be a drift dive

    driftrate

    drift rate (m/s)

    benthicdiveindex

    metric that reflects dive characteristics and how likely it is to be a benthic dive

    benthicdivevertrate
    cornerindex
    foragingindex
    verticalspeed90perc
    verticalspeed95perc
    divetype

    Dive type (transit, foraging, drift or transit)

    day_departure

    # of days since departure

    lat

    last latitude received

    lon

    last longitude received

    dist_dep

    distance from departure (m)

    sp

    Acronym for the species

    dist_dep

    Distance from the first data location point (m?)

    temp

    Sea surface temperature from Copernicus data (data_cop)

    ssh

    Sea surface height from Copernicus data (data_cop)

    psu

    Practical Salinity Unit from Copernicus data (data_cop)

    vel

    Current velocity in m/s derived from Copernicus data (data_cop)

    bathy

    Bathymetry from marmap package

    phase

    phase of the day (day or night)

  2. 2016 Dataset

    rec#

    # of days recorded

    date

    date

    time

    time

    sunrise
    sunset
    tflatn_degs
    tflats_degs
    tfnoonn
    tfnoons
    sst2_c

    sea surface temperature (C)

    sst2depth_dbars
    sst2time
    tflaterrn
    tflaterrs
    tflonerrn
    tflonerrs
    mininttemp_c
    maxexttemp_c
    maxpress_dbars
    latitude_degs
    longitude_degs
    tflonn_degs
    tflons_degs

Source

roxanne@ucsc.edu

Details

These datasets have been processed using the following files:

  • 2018070_nese0000annu_1790212_SubSample_iknos_DiveStat_RSB.csv

  • 2018070_results-2-GPE3.csv

  • 2018072_BothTrips_1790214_SubSample_iknos_DiveStat_RSB.csv

  • 2018072_results-2-GPE3.csv

  • 2018074_nese0000annu_1790218_SubSample_iknos_DiveStat_RSB.csv

  • 2018080_nese0000annu_1790226_SubSample_iknos_DiveStat_RSB.csv

  • 2018080_results-2-GPE3.csv

  • LAT290_3449_170426_211859_00.csv

  • LAT290_3450_161217_131810_00_Scaled.csv

  • LAT290_3456_161217_131235_00_Scaled.csv

  • LAT290_3457_161217_130604_00_Scaled.csv

  • LAT290_3460_161217_125958_00_Scaled.csv

  • LAT290_3463_161108_075936_00_Scaled.csv