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Model Data (reanalysis and climate projections)

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Jose M. Gutierrez edited this page Feb 24, 2016 · 3 revisions

The loadeR package relies on the powerful capabilities of the Unidata's netCDF-Java libraries. A slightly modified version of this open source software (v4.6-SNAPSHOT) is automatically linked when loading the package. This Java library lets loadeR to handle many different binary files formats besides NetCDF (see a complete list of supported formats), both locally and remotely via OPeNDAP and other remote access protocols.

loadeR allows to create virtual datasets using the NetCDF Markup Language (NcML). NcML easily allows:

  • Combine data from multiple CDM files (a.k.a. "aggregated").
  • Add/delete and change metadata information.
  • Add/delete, rename or reestructure variables.

Extended examples on how to create/modify NcML datasets can be accessed at the NcML tutorial and the NcML cookbook.

In loadeR, the NcML representation of a dataset will be often referred to simply as a "dataset".

loadeR - Santander MetGroup (Univ. Cantabria - CSIC)

  1. Package Installation (and known problems)
  2. Model Data (reanalysis and climate projections)
    1. Dataset definition and loading local grid data
    2. Loading remote grid data
    3. Loading data from the User Data Gateway (UDG)
  3. Observations (station and gridded data)
    1. Standard (ASCII) format for station data
    2. Accessing and loading station data
    3. Accessing and loading grid data
  4. Standard data manipulation
    1. Harmonization
    2. Exporting to netCDF
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