R: Sample met Object

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## Sample met Object

### Description

This is sample met object containing data for Halifax, Nova Scotia, during September of 2003 (the period during which Hurricane Juan struck the city).

### Details

The data file was downloaded

    metFile <- download.met(id=6358, year=2003, month=9, destdir=".", type="xml")

Note that using `download.met()` avoids having to navigate the the awkward Environment Canada website, but it imposes the burden of having to know the station ID number. With the data in-hand, the object was then created (and its timezone adjusted) with

    met <- read.met(metFile)
    met <- oceSetData(met, "time", met[["time"]]+4*3600,
                     note="add 4h to local time to get UTC time")

Historical note. The `data(met)` object was changed on October 19, 2019, based on the data provided by Environment Canada at that time. The previous version of `data(met)`, created in 2017, had been based on a data format that Environment Canada no longer provided in 2019. See the notes on the `type` argument of `read.met()` for more on this shift in the Environment Canada data format.

### Source

Environment Canada website on October 19, 2019.

### See Also

Other datasets provided with oce: `adp`, `adv`, `amsr`, `argo`, `cm`, `coastlineWorld`, `ctdRaw`, `ctd`, `echosounder`, `landsat`, `lisst`, `lobo`, `ocecolors`, `rsk`, `sealevelTuktoyaktuk`, `sealevel`, `section`, `topoWorld`, `wind`, `xbt`

Other things related to met data: `[[,met-method`, `[[<-,met-method`, `as.met()`, `download.met()`, `met-class`, `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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