Class to store meteorological data, with standard slots metadata,
data and processingLog. For objects created with
read.met, the data slot will contain all the columns
within the original file (with some guesses as to units) in addition to
several calculated quantities such as u and v, which are
velocities in m/s (not the km/h stored in typical data files), and which
obey the oceanographic convention that u>0 is a wind towards the
east.
Accessing values. For an object named m, temperature (in degC)
may be accessed as m[["temperature"]], dew point (in degC) as
m[["dewPoint"]], pressure (in kPa) as m[["pressure"]],
eastward wind component (in m/s) as m[["u"]], northward wind
component (in m/s) as m[["v"]], and wind direction (in degrees
clockwise of North) as "direction".
The filename from which the data came
(if any) may be found with m[["filename"]]. Items in metadata
must be specifield by full name, but those in data may be
abbreviated, so long as the abbreviation is unique.
Assigning values. Everything that may be accessed may also be assigned, e.g.
m[["temperature"]] <- 1 + m[["temperature"]]
increases temperature by 1C.
Other classes provided by oce: adp-class,
adv-class, argo-class,
bremen-class, cm-class,
coastline-class, ctd-class,
echosounder-class,
lisst-class, lobo-class,
oce-class, odf-class,
rsk-class, sealevel-class,
section-class, topo-class,
windrose-class
Other things related to met data: [[,met-method,
[[<-,met-method, as.met,
download.met, met,
plot,met-method, read.met,
subset,met-method,
summary,met-method