| u |
"advection" component of movement; northward component of directed movement |
0 |
nm/day |
| v |
"advection" component of movement; eastward component of directed movement |
0 |
nm/day |
| D |
"diffusion" component of movement. A measure of the variability in movement |
100 |
nm^2/day |
| ss1 |
light covariance parameter 1 - two light measurements taken near the same solar event are more similar (correlated) than two taken at separate solar events |
1 |
N/A |
| ss2 |
light covariance parameter 2 - correlation between two light measurements near the same solar event decreases as the time between them increases |
5 |
N/A |
| ss3 |
independent measurement errors in light |
1 |
N/A |
| rho |
light covariance parameter used in combination with ss1 & ss2, see Nielsen & Sibert 2007 for equations |
0.01 |
N/A |
| bsst |
systematic error (or bias) in the estimation of sea-surface temperature, SST |
1 |
degree Celsius |
| sssst |
random error in the estimation of sea-surface temperature, SST |
0.1 |
degree Celsius |
| rad |
smoothing radius of SST data; radius centered from a given point within which satellite SST data are used |
200 |
nm |
| phi |
a collection of points (n = a2lpoints, default at 15) used to model a light curve with a cubic spine |
See ?trackit |
N/A |