downloadMosaic: Download netCDF mosaic files.
In Conte-Ecology/zonalDaymet: A toolset to process Daymet climate records

Description Usage Arguments Details Examples

View source: R/downloadMosaic.R

The downloadMosaic function downloads mosaic NetCDF files from the Daymet THREDDS server.

1 2	downloadMosaic(years, variables, destinationDirectory, retryFailedDownloads = TRUE)

`years`	A numeric vector specifying the years to download
`variables`	A character vector specifying the variables to download
`destinationDirectory`	Character string of the file path to the target folder for downloaded files
`retryFailedDownloads`	logical; If TRUE the function will check (by opening) to see if the netCDF files are corrupt.

The function will download all files for the variables and years specified. The THREDDS server URL is hard-coded into the function and will need to be updated whenever the URL changes.

downloadMosaic(years                = 1980:1990,
               variables            = c("tmin", "tmax", "prcp"),
               destinationDirectory = "C:/USER/Data/Daymet",
               retryFailedDownloads = TRUE)