scintec1.variables: read the variable descriptions from a file in Scintec Format-1 format
Description
get timeseries of non-profile variables from a
a Scintec atmospheric profiler data format "Format-1" (extension ".mnd")
Usage
scintec1.variables(file, header = list())
Value
data.frame; each entry corresponds to one variable. The columns are:
label
Name of variable
symbol
short name; corresponds to list name in
scintec1.profile,scintec1.nonprofile, and read.scintec1
unit
physical unit
type
code describing for example averaging, profile/nonprofile,
measured, derived or assimilated. See Scintec Software Manual
error.mask
See Scintec Software Manual
gap.value
value in files representing missing values of this variable
Arguments
file
name (and path if necessary) of the file to read
header
optionally, instead of reading the header from the file again,
the output of a previous call to scintec1.header
on the same file can be supplied via this argument.