scintec1.variables: read the variable descriptions from a file in Scintec...

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read the variable descriptions from a file in Scintec Format-1 format

Description

get timeseries of non-profile variables from a a Scintec atmospheric profiler data format "Format-1" (extension ".mnd")

Usage

scintec1.variables(file, header = list())

Arguments

file	name (and path if necessary) of the file to read
header	optionally, instead of reading the header from the file again, the output of a previous call to scintec1.header on the same file can be supplied via this argument.

Value

data.frame; each entry corresponds to one variable. The columns are:

label	Name of variable
symbol	short name; corresponds to list name in scintec1.profile,scintec1.nonprofile, and read.scintec1
unit	physical unit
type	code describing for example averaging, profile/nonprofile, measured, derived or assimilated. See Scintec Software Manual
error.mask	See Scintec Software Manual
gap.value	value in files representing missing values of this variable

Author(s)

Clemens Druee

References

Scintec APRun software manual

Examples

vars <- scintec1.variables(system.file("extdata", "example.mnd", package="readmet"))
head(vars)

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