Process meteorological data — process

The process_narr() function imports and cleans raw meteorological data, returning a single SpatRaster object.

Usage

process_narr(
  date = c("2023-09-01", "2023-09-01"),
  variable = NULL,
  path = NULL,
  extent = NULL,
  ...
)

Arguments

date: character(2). length of 10 each. Start/end date of downloaded data. Format YYYY-MM-DD (ex. September 1, 2023 = "2023-09-01").
variable: character(1). Variable name acronym. See List of Variables in NARR Files for variable names and acronym codes.
path: character(1). Directory with downloaded netCDF (.nc) files.
extent: numeric(4) or SpatExtent giving the extent of the raster if NULL (default), the entire raster is loaded
...: Placeholders.

Value

a SpatRaster object

Note

Layer names of the returned SpatRaster object contain the variable acronym, pressure level, and date.

Author

Mitchell Manware

Examples

## NOTE: Example is wrapped in `\dontrun{}` as function requires a large
##       amount of data which is not included in the package.
if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
process_narr(
  date = c("2018-01-01", "2018-01-01"),
  variable = "weasd",
  path = "./tests/testdata/narr/weasd"
)
} # }