Southern Ocean Map — SOmap • SOmap

Function for creating round Southern Ocean maps.

SOmap(
  bathy_legend = TRUE,
  border = TRUE,
  trim = -45,
  graticules = FALSE,
  straight = FALSE,
  land = TRUE,
  land_col = "black",
  ice = TRUE,
  ice_col = "black",
  fronts = FALSE,
  fronts_col = c("hotpink", "orchid", "plum"),
  border_col = c("white", "black"),
  border_width = 2,
  graticules_col = "grey70"
)

Arguments

bathy_legend: logical: if TRUE, insert the bathymetry legend. If bathy_legend = NULL or bathy_legend = "space", then space will be left for the legend but no legend will actually be plotted. Use this if you plan to add a legend later.
border: logical: if TRUE, insert longitude border.
trim: numeric: latitude to trim the map to. Set this to -10 for effectively no trim.
graticules: logical: if TRUE, insert graticule grid.
straight: logical: if TRUE, leave a blank space on the side for a straight legend.
land: logical: if TRUE, plot coastline.
land_col: character: colour to use for coastline.
ice: logical: if TRUE, plot ice features (ice shelves, glacier tongues, and similar).
ice_col: character: colour to use for ice features.
fronts: logical or string: if TRUE or "Orsi", plot Orsi et al., (1995) ocean fronts: Subantarctic Front, Polar Front, Southern Antarctic Circumpolar Current Front. If "Park" plot the Park & Durand (2019) fronts; Northern boundary, Subantarctic Front, Polar Front, Southern Antarctic Circumpolar Current Front and Southern Boundary.
fronts_col: character: colours for fronts.
border_col: character: colours for longitude border.
border_width: numeric: thickness (in degrees of latitude) of the border.
graticules_col: string: colour for graticule grid.

Value

An object of class "SOmap", which represents a polar-stereographic map of the southern hemisphere. Printing or plotting this object will cause it to be displayed in the current graphics device.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
  tfile <- tempfile("SOmap", fileext = ".png")
  png(tfile, width = 22, height = 20, units = "cm", res = 600)
  SOmap(trim = -45, graticules = TRUE)
  dev.off()
  unlink(tfile)
  SOmap(trim = -45, graticules = TRUE)
}