createOrthogonalThermistorNCF: Create empty netCDF file thermistor stations with identical...
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View source: R/dbpf_export_nc_chain_ortho.R

createOrthogonalThermistorNCF

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Create empty netCDF file thermistor stations with identical measurement depths

Description

Creates a netCDF file with specified dimensions. The file has no data within it, but must be added in afterwards.

Usage

createOrthogonalThermistorNCF(
  file,
  n_stations,
  n_timestep,
  n_depth,
  close_file = F,
  time_units = "days since 1970-01-01 00:00:00"
)

Arguments

`file`	Character, path to output netCDF file (*.nc)
`n_stations`	Integer, how many sites are to be added to the file
`n_timestep`	Integer, the number of unique timesteps for which there is temperature data
`n_depth`	Integer, the largest number of depth measurements in any profile
`close_file`	Logical, whether or not to close the connection to the file after creation. Leaving the file open allows for the immediate addition of data. Defaults to FALSE.
`time_units`	netcdf4-style string description of time units

Details

The file structure is based on H.5.1. "Multidimensional array of time series profiles representation of time series" (http://cfconventions.org/cf-conventions/v1.6.0/cf-conventions.html#_multidimensional_array_representations_of_time_series_profiles)