Create a regional CTD composite figure (all standard stations)

Produces a multi-station patchwork figure for one geographic region. Each row shows one station: left panel is the CTD fluorescence profile (0–50 m, deduplicated casts, shared x-scale), right panel is the Chl-a time series with smooth spline historical statistics.

Usage

create_ctd_region_figure(
  ctd_data_full,
  lims_data_full = NULL,
  chl_stats,
  standard_stations,
  region,
  current_year,
  force_two_columns = FALSE
)

Arguments

ctd_data_full

Data frame from read_cnv_folder_all().

lims_data_full

Data frame from read_lims_data_all(), or NULL.

chl_stats

Data frame from load_chl_statistics().

standard_stations

Data frame from load_standard_stations().

region

Character region name.

current_year

Integer year.

force_two_columns

Logical; always use a two-column layout even without LIMS data (right column filled with spacers). Default FALSE.

Value

A patchwork object, or NULL if there are no data for the region.

Details

When force_two_columns = TRUE (used for report output), a spacer column is added even when no LIMS data are available, keeping the profile panels at a consistent width across all regions.

Month labels appear only on the bottom station row (English abbreviations, locale-independent).