timePeriod: Get time periods available of the oceanographic data

In r-forge/satin: Functions for downloading, reading and displaying satellite data for oceanographic applications with R

Description

To get all time periods available of the oceanographic data.

Usage

timePeriod(dataset)

Arguments

dataset

the data set of the oceanographic data. Use dataSetQuery to get this 7 carchacter "BloomWatch" data set name. For example, "TBAssta" which corresponds to global sea surface temperature, with a spatial resolution of 0.1degrees.

Value

timePeriod return a character vector indicating all time periods available for the oceanographic data.

For data files which represent composites of several day's worth of data, the timeperiod indicates the length of the composite. For example, for a 3day time period, if the centered time is 2006-08-04 12:00:00, the data is a composite (the mean) of all satellite passes from 2006-08-03 00:00:00 until 2006-08-06 00:00:00.

Author(s)

Raul O Martinez-Rincon and Hector Villalobos

References

http://coastwatch.pfel.noaa.gov/coastwatch/CWBrowserWW360Info.html

See Also

dataSetQuery

Examples

## Make a query of all time periods available of global sea surface temperature
## with a spatial resolution of 0.1deggres

dataSetQuery(parameter = "temperature", resolution = "0.1degrees")
dataset <- "TBAssta" # or 
dataset <- dataSetQuery(dataset = 40)
timePeriod(dataset)

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