R: Read a World Ocean Atlas NetCDF File

read.woa {oce} | R Documentation

## Read a World Ocean Atlas NetCDF File

### Description

Read a World Ocean Atlas NetCDF File

### Usage

    read.woa(file, name, positive = FALSE)

### Arguments

`file` | character string naming the file
`name` | of variable to extract. If not provided, an error message is issued that lists the names of data in the file.
`positive` | logical value indicating whether `longitude` should be converted to be in the range from 0 to 360, with `name` being shuffled accordingly. This is set to `FALSE` by default, because the usual oce convention is for longitude to range between -180 to +180.

### Value

A list containing vectors `longitude`, `latitude`, `depth`, and an array with the specified name. If `positive` is true, then `longitude` will be converted to range from 0 to 360, and the array will be shuffled accordingly.

### Examples

    ## Not run:
    ## Mean SST at 5-degree spatial resolution
    tmn <- read.woa("/data/woa13/woa13_decav_t00_5dv2.nc", "t_mn")
    imagep(tmn$longitude, tmn$latitude, tmn$t_mn[,,1], zlab="SST")

    ## End(Not run)

[Package oce version 1.0-1 Index]