cmsaf (version 1.9.5)

timmin: Determine all-time minima.

Description

The function determines all-time minimum values from data of a single CM SAF NetCDF input file.This function is applicable to 3-dimensional (lon,lat,time) NetCDF data.

Usage

timmin(var, infile, outfile, nc34)

Arguments

var

Name of NetCDF variable (character).

infile

Filename of input NetCDF file. This may include the directory (character).

outfile

Filename of output NetCDF file. This may include the directory (character).

nc34

NetCDF version of output file. If nc34=4 the output file will be in NetCDFv4 format (numeric). Default output is NetCDFv3.

Value

A NetCDF file including a timeseries of all-time minima is written.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
## Create an example NetCDF file with a similar structure
## as used by CM SAF. The file is created with the ncdf4 package.
## Alternatively example data can be freely downloaded here: 
## <https://wui.cmsaf.eu/>

library(ncdf4)

## create some (non-realistic) example data

  lon <- seq(5,15,0.5)
  lat <- seq(45,55,0.5)
  time <- seq(as.Date('2000-01-01'), as.Date('2000-03-31'), 'days')
  origin <- as.Date('1983-01-01 00:00:00')
  time <- as.numeric(difftime(time,origin,units='hour'))
  data <- array(250:350,dim=c(21,21,91))

## create example NetCDF

   x <- ncdim_def(name='lon',units='degrees_east',vals=lon)
   y <- ncdim_def(name='lat',units='degrees_north',vals=lat)
   t <- ncdim_def(name='time',units='hours since 1983-01-01 00:00:00',
   vals=time,unlim=TRUE)
   var1 <- ncvar_def('SIS','W m-2',list(x,y,t),-1,prec='short')
   vars <- list(var1)
   ncnew <- nc_create('CMSAF_example_file.nc',vars)
   ncvar_put(ncnew,var1,data)
   ncatt_put(ncnew,'lon','standard_name','longitude',prec='text')
   ncatt_put(ncnew,'lat','standard_name','latitude',prec='text')
   nc_close(ncnew)

## Determine the all-time minimum of the example CM SAF NetCDF file and 
## write the output to a new file.
   timmin('SIS','CMSAF_example_file.nc','CMSAF_example_file_timmin.nc')
# }