R: Coerce Data into met Object

as.met {oce} | R Documentation

## Coerce Data into met Object

### Description

Coerces a dataset into a met dataset. This fills in only a few of the typical data fields, so the returned object is much sparser than the output from `read.met()`. Also, almost no metadata fields are filled in, so the resultant object does not store station location, units of the data, data-quality flags, etc. Anyone working with data from Environment Canada (reference 2) is advised to use `read.met()` instead of the present function.

### Usage

    as.met(time, temperature, pressure, u, v, filename = "(constructed from data)")

### Arguments

`time` | Either a vector of observation times (or character strings that can be coerced into times) or the output from `canadaHCD::hcd_hourly` (see reference 1).
`temperature` | vector of temperatures.
`pressure` | vector of pressures.
`u` | vector of eastward wind speed in m/s.
`v` | vector of northward wind speed in m/s.
`filename` | optional string indicating data source

### Value

A met object.

### Author(s)

Dan Kelley

### References

1. The `canadaHCD` package is in development by Gavin Simpson; see https://github.com/gavinsimpson/canadaHCD for instructions on how to download and install from GitHub.

2. Environment Canada website for Historical Climate Data http://climate.weather.gc.ca/index_e.html

### See Also

Other things related to met data: `[[,met-method`, `[[<-,met-method`, `download.met()`, `met-class`, `met`, `plot,met-method`, `read.met()`, `subset,met-method`, `summary,met-method`, `test_met_csv1.csv`, `test_met_csv2.csv`, `test_met_xml2.xml`

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