WriteNCDF4 {greenbrown}R Documentation

Write NetCDF files

Description

Writes NetCDF files from rasters and makes sure that meta-information is properly defined.

Usage

WriteNCDF4(data.l, var.name, var.unit, time = as.Date("2000-01-01"), 
    var.description = var.name, file = NULL, data.name = NA, 
    region.name = NA, file.title = var.name, file.description = var.name, 
    reference = "", provider = "", creator = "", missval = -9999, 
    scale = 1, offset = 0, compression = 9, overwrite = FALSE)

Arguments

data.l

a single Raster* object or a list of Raster* objects

var.name

vector of variable names

var.unit

vector of variable units

time

vector of time steps for each layer.

var.description

vector of variable descriptions

file

file name. If NULL the file name will be created from the variable name and the dimensions of the data.

data.name

name of the dataset

region.name

name of the region

file.title

title of the file

file.description

description of the file

reference

reference for the dataset

provider

dataset provider

creator

dataset creator

missval

flag for missing/NA values

scale

scaling values for the data

offset

offset value

compression

If set to an integer between 1 (least compression) and 9 (most compression), this enables compression for the variable as it is written to the file. Turning compression on forces the created file to be in netcdf version 4 format, which will not be compatible with older software that only reads netcdf version 3 files.

overwrite

overwrite existing file?

Author(s)

Matthias Forkel <matthias.forkel@geo.tuwien.ac.at> [aut, cre]


[Package greenbrown version 2.4.3 Index]