runmax: Determine running maxima

Description

The function determines running maxima from data of a single CM SAF NetCDF input file.

Usage

runmax(
  var,
  nts = 6,
  infile,
  outfile,
  nc34 = 4,
  overwrite = FALSE,
  verbose = FALSE
)

Arguments

var

Name of NetCDF variable (character).

nts

Number of consecutive timesteps. Computes running statistical values over a selected number of timesteps. Default is 6.

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 = 3 the output file will be in NetCDFv3 format (numeric). Default output is NetCDFv4.

overwrite

logical; should existing output file be overwritten?

verbose

logical; if TRUE, progress messages are shown

Value

A NetCDF file including a time series of running maxima is written.

Examples

Run this code

# 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(10, 15, 0.5)
lat <- seq(50, 55, 0.5)
time <- seq(as.Date("2000-01-01"), as.Date("2010-12-31"), "month")
origin <- as.Date("1983-01-01 00:00:00")
time <- as.numeric(difftime(time, origin, units = "hour"))
data <- array(250:350, dim = c(11, 11, 132))

## 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(file.path(tempdir(),"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 running maxima of the example CM SAF NetCDF file and write
## the output to a new file.
runmin(var = "SIS", nts = 10, infile = file.path(tempdir(),"CMSAF_example_file.nc"), 
 outfile = file.path(tempdir(),"CMSAF_example_file_runmax.nc"))

unlink(c(file.path(tempdir(),"CMSAF_example_file.nc"), file.path(tempdir(),
 "CMSAF_example_file_runmax.nc")))
# }

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