read_oisst: Read OISST dataset

In aldomann/tropicalcyclones: Parse and Explore Data from Tropical-cyclone Databases

Description

Read and extract mean sea surface temperature data from NOAA's Optimum Interpolated Sea Surface Temperature (OISST) v2 High Resolution daily or weekly datasets.

Usage

read_oisst(filename, landsea_mask, long_w, long_e, lat_s, lat_n)

Arguments

filename	full path to unzipped netCDF data file
landsea_mask	full path to land-sea mask netCDF file
long_w	western-most longitude of search area, must be smaller than long_e
long_e	(optional) eastern-most longitude of search area, must be larger than long_w
lat_s	southern-most latitude of search area, must be smaller than lat_n
lat_n	(optional) northern-most latitude of search area, must be larger than lat_s

Value

A 2-dimensional matrix with latitudes in rows and longitudes in columns

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