Meta.QuickFacts: Fact sheet overview of data set

In ErikKusch/KrigR: Downloading, Aggregating, and Kriging of ECMWF CDS-Data

Fact sheet overview of data set

Description

Read and return short overview of data set characteristics, supported types, extent, time frames and required arguments.

Usage

Meta.QuickFacts(dataset = "reanalysis-era5-land")

Arguments

dataset

Character. Name of data set. Usually a set of words separated by dashes. See possible datasets by calling Meta.List.

Value

A list object reporting information on queried dataset in standardised way:

• DataSetdata set string.

• Typecharacter, supported types of the data set.

• URLcharacter, url of CDS webpage corresponding to data set.

• Descriptioncharacter, plain text description of data set scraped from CDS.

• TResolutioncharacter, base temporal resolution of each layer in data set.

• TStepnumeric, vector of time step between layers in data set corresponding to Type.

• TStartPOSIXct, date and time at which first layer is available.

• TEndPOSIXct or character, date and time at which first layer is available.

• Projectioncrs of data set.

• SpatialResolutionnumeric, resolution of data set in space in degrees.

• CDSArgumentslist, required arguments for CDS call beyond standard arguments and also reporting default/options for common CDS query arguments.

See Also

Meta.List, Meta.Read, Meta.Variables, Meta.DOI.

Examples

Meta.QuickFacts()

ErikKusch/KrigR documentation built on Feb. 17, 2025, 2:09 p.m.