ncdfCF-package {ncdfCF}R Documentation

ncdfCF: Easy Access to NetCDF Files and Interpreting with CF Metadata Conventions

Description

Support for accessing and interpreting NetCDF datasets in a familiar R style. Built on top of the RNetCDF package, built and maintained by the developers of the netcdf library, package ncdfCF provides high-level access to NetCDF resources. Resources are matched against the Climate and Forecast (CF) Metadata Conventions for climate and forecasting data. The CF Metadata Conventions is widely used for distributing files with climate observations or projections, including the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) data used by climate change scientists and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This package currently supports axis determination, time interpretation with all 9 defined calendars, and use of bounds data.

Details

Properties of the NetCDF resource objects are easily examined using common R commands. Access to the data in the variables can be had using similarly known patterns.

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Author(s)

Maintainer: Patrick Van Laake patrick@vanlaake.net [copyright holder]


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