getMERRADataBox: Get MERRA Files for a given spatial box

In joph/MERRAbin: Downloads MERRA Climate Data and converts them to quickly readable binary format

Description

Function to download data from the merra2 dataset

Usage

getMERRADataBox(targetPath = "", lon1, lat1, lon2, lat2, period, params, user,
  pass, runParallel = TRUE, outputofParallelProc = "", dim, avg)

Arguments

targetPath	Path to save MERRA ncdf files to
lon1	Box coordinate
lat1	Box coordinate
lon2	Box coordinate
lat2	Box coordinate
period	A vector with all dates to download (daily entries in the vector).
params	The respective parameter to be downloaded
user, pass	username and password for the downloadserver get one at: https://urs.earthdata.nasa.gov/home
runParallel	if true, download uses available cores to parallelize downloads
dim	requested dataset dimension. 2d or 3d, however only 2d support tested at the moment.
avg	if true, time averaged variables will be prioritised
outputOfParallelProc	If different from "", output files are written to the specified directory

Value

Does not return anything, but writes, as a side-effect, the downloaded files to disk.

joph/MERRAbin documentation built on May 29, 2019, 1:07 a.m.