vpts: a time series of vertical profilesClass vpts for a time series of vertical profiles, and its associated
R base functions.
# S3 method for vpts
summary(object, ...)is.vpts(x)
# S3 method for vpts
dim(x)
An object of class vpts.
Additional arguments affecting the summary produced.
An object of class vpts.
For is.vpts: TRUE if its argument is of
class vpts.
For dim.vpts: dimensions of the time series.
An object of class vpts contains time-ordered profiles of a single
radar station.
The time series can be regular or irregular, indicated by the regular
field
In a regular vpts object the profiles are equally spaced in time. In
an irregular vpts object the time steps between profiles are of
unequal length.
Irregular time series can be projected onto a regular time grid using the regularize_vpts function.
By contrast, vp objects can be concatenated in a list to combine profiles without time ordering, and profiles of multiple radars.
Data contained in this class object should be accessed with the
get_quantity function. Information stored under attributes
(see below) can be accessed directly.
An object of class vpts is a list containing
radarstring containing the radar identifier
datetimethe N nominal times of the profiles (named dates in bioRad versions < 0.4.0)
heightsthe M heights of the layers in the profile
daterangethe minimum and maximum nominal time of the profiles in the list
timestepstime differences between the profiles. Element
i gives the time difference between profile i and
i+1
datalist of N by M matrices containing the
vertical profiles for each quantity. For a description of available
quantities, see the data element of the vp class in
read_vpfiles
attributesprofile attributes, copied from the first profile
contained in x
regularlogical indicating whether the time series is regular or not