Package: rLakeAnalyzer 1.12.0

Luke Winslow

rLakeAnalyzer: Lake Physics Tools

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.

Authors:Luke Winslow, Jordan Read, Richard Woolway, Jennifer Brentrup, Taylor Leach, Jake Zwart, Sam Albers, Doug Collinge

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NEWS

# Install 'rLakeAnalyzer' in R:
install.packages('rLakeAnalyzer', repos = c('https://gleon.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/gleon/rlakeanalyzer/issues

Datasets:

On CRAN:

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Exports:approx.bathybuoyancy.freqcenter.buoyancydepth.filterepi.temperatureget.offsetshypo.temperatureinternal.energylake.numberlake.number.plotlayer.densitylayer.temperatureload.bathyload.tsmeta.depthsschmidt.plotschmidt.stabilitythermo.depthts.buoyancy.freqts.center.buoyancyts.internal.energyts.lake.numberts.layer.temperaturets.meta.depthsts.schmidt.stabilityts.thermo.depthts.uStarts.wedderburn.numberuStarwater.densitywedderburn.numberwhole.lake.temperaturewtr.heat.mapwtr.heatmap.layerswtr.layerwtr.lineserieswtr.plot.temp

Dependencies:plyrRcpp

Introduction to file and data formats in rLakeAnalyzer

Luke Winslow

Rendered fromdata.handling.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdownon May 23 2026.

Last update: 2018-01-05
Started: 2017-09-29

Split and Merge Algorithm Usage

Sam Albers and Doug Collinge

Rendered fromsm_algorithm.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdownon May 23 2026.

Last update: 2018-01-05
Started: 2017-09-29

Readme and manuals

Help Manual

Help pageTopics
Estimate hypsography curveapprox.bathy
Calculates buoyancy frequency.buoyancy.freq
Calculates the center of buoyancy.center.buoyancy
Data filter to remove soak, heave and upcastdepth.filter
Find and drop the datetime column from the datatabledrop.datetime
Get volumetrically averaged epilimnion tempepi.temperature
Search for and return the datetime column from a ts data.frameget.datetime
Gets depths from data frame containing profile info.get.offsets
Get volumetrically averaged hypolimnion temphypo.temperature
Internal energy function (Joules)internal.energy
Calculate Lake Numberlake.number
Plots time series of Lake Numberlake.number.plot
Late Summer Profilelatesummer
Returns the average density of a layer between two depths.layer.density
Returns the average temperature of a layer between two depths.layer.temperature
Import lake bathymetry data.load.bathy
Load timeseries from properly formatted text file.load.ts
Calculate the Top and Bottom Depths of the Metalimnionmeta.depths
Lake Physics ToolsrLakeAnalyzer-package rLakeAnalyzer
Creates a time series plot of Schmidt's stabilityschmidt.plot
Calculate the Schmidt stabilityschmidt.stability
Calculate depth of the thermocline from a temperature profile.thermo.depth
Calculate the buoyancy (Brunt-Vaisala) frequency for a temperature profile.ts.buoyancy.freq
Calculates the center of buoyancy for multiple temperature profiles.ts.center.buoyancy
Calculate physical indices for a timeseries.ts.internal.energy
Calculate physical indices for a timeseries.ts.lake.number
Calculate volume-weighted average water temperature across a range of depths for a timeseries.ts.layer.temperature
Calculate physical indices for a timeseries.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 Wedderburn number for a timeseries.ts.wedderburn.number
Calculates the water friction velocity, uStaruStar
Estimate Water Densitywater.density
Calculates Wedderburn Number for a lake.wedderburn.number
Get volumetrically averaged whole lake temperaturewhole.lake.temperature
Plots a heat-map of water temperature.wtr.heat.map
Plots water temperature heatmap with major limnetic layers indicatedwtr.heatmap.layers
Exploration of lake water column layerswtr.layer
Creates a line based plot of temperature profile time serieswtr.lineseries
Creates a time series plot of the thermocline and top and bottom of the metalimnionwtr.plot.temp