osisafimage: Create image of EUMETSAT OSISAF products

In steingod/R-osisaf: Useful functions for handling EUMETSAT Ocean and Sea Ice SAF data

Description

EUMETSAT Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility (OSISAF (http://www.osi-saf.org) products in NCSA HDF5 format from the High Latitude processing center (http://saf.met.no) are accessed using the library used to generate the products. This function reads the output from readosisaf and creates an image on the graphical device used.

Usage

osisafimage(x, layer=1, map=FALSE, ...)  

Arguments

x	R object (list) returned by readosisaf
layer	The data layer to visualise (1 or higher)
map	logical telling whether coast lines should be added
...	Additional graphical parameters

Value

None

Note

The current version supports map overlay only for the standard map projection of the OSISAF HL centre. That is Polar Stereographic correct at 60 degrees North and not rotated.

Author(s)

Øystein Godøy ([e-mail])

See Also

readosisaf

Examples

    # Read a sea ice concentration field
    t <- readosisaf(file="/opdata/osisaf/output/ice/multi/conc/ice_conc_nh_200609181200.hdf")
    # Generate image on graphical device
    osisafimage(t)

steingod/R-osisaf documentation built on May 30, 2019, 2:32 p.m.