read_bootstrap: Read individual bootstrap binary file

In IceCast: Apply Statistical Post-Processing to Improve Sea Ice Predictions

Description

Read in individual binary files of monthly observation data. The observations are from the monthly sea ice concentration obtained from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) satellites Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS and processed by the bootstrap algorithm. The results are distributed by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) (Comiso 2017). Functions assume file name conventions are the same as used by NSIDC.

Usage

read_bootstrap(file_name, nX = 304, nY = 448)

Arguments

file_name	file name for binary bootstrap data
nX	dimension in the x (defaults to value for Northern Polar stereographic grid: 304)
nY	dimension in the y (defaults to value for Northern Polar stereographic grid: 448)

Value

numeric vector of concentrations

References

Comiso, J., 2017: Bootstrap sea ice concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS. version 3. Boulder, Colorado USA: NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. doi: https://doi.org/10.5067/7Q8HCCWS4I0R

Examples

## Not run: 
#fileName should be the binary file
rawData <- read_bootstrap(file_name)

## End(Not run)

IceCast documentation built on June 24, 2019, 9:03 a.m.