cmsaf.div {cmsafops}

Divide the fields of two input NetCDF files.

Description

The function divides the fields of infile1 by the fields of infile2. Infiles have to have the same spatial and temporal dimension or one infile can contain only one timestep. The outfile uses the meta data of infile1.

Usage

cmsaf.div(
  var1,
  var2,
  infile1,
  infile2,
  outfile,
  nc34 = 4,
  overwrite = FALSE,
  verbose = FALSE,
  nc1 = NULL,
  nc2 = NULL
)

Arguments

var1

Name of variable in infile1 (character).

var2

Name of variable in infile2 (character).

infile1

Filename of first input NetCDF file. This may include the directory (character).

infile2

Filename of second input NetCDF file. This may include the directory (character).

outfile

Filename of output NetCDF file. This may include the directory (character).

nc34

NetCDF version of output file. If nc34 = 3 the output file will be in NetCDFv3 format (numeric). Default output is NetCDFv4.

overwrite

logical; should existing output file be overwritten?

verbose

logical; if TRUE, progress messages are shown

nc1

Alternatively to infile1 you can specify the input as an object of class ncdf4 (as returned from ncdf4::nc_open).

nc2

Alternatively to infile2 you can specify the input as an object of class ncdf4 (as returned from ncdf4::nc_open).

Value

A NetCDF file including the divided fields of infile1 and infile2 is written.

See Also

Other mathematical operators: cmsaf.abs(), cmsaf.add(), cmsaf.addc(), cmsaf.divc(), cmsaf.mul(), cmsaf.mulc(), cmsaf.sub(), cmsaf.subc(), divdpm(), muldpm()

Examples

## Create an example NetCDF file with a similar structure as used by CM
## SAF. The file is created with the ncdf4 package.  Alternatively
## example data can be freely downloaded here: <https://wui.cmsaf.eu/>

library(ncdf4)

## create some (non-realistic) example data

lon <- seq(10, 15, 0.5)
lat <- seq(50, 55, 0.5)
time <- c(as.Date("2000-01-01"), as.Date("2001-02-01"))
origin <- as.Date("1983-01-01 00:00:00")
time <- as.numeric(difftime(time, origin, units = "hour"))
data1 <- array(250:350, dim = c(11, 11, 1))
data2 <- array(230:320, dim = c(11, 11, 1))

## create two example NetCDF files

x <- ncdim_def(name = "lon", units = "degrees_east", vals = lon)
y <- ncdim_def(name = "lat", units = "degrees_north", vals = lat)
t <- ncdim_def(name = "time", units = "hours since 1983-01-01 00:00:00",
 vals = time[1], unlim = TRUE)
var1 <- ncvar_def("SIS", "W m-2", list(x, y, t), -1, prec = "short")
vars <- list(var1)
ncnew <- nc_create(file.path(tempdir(),"CMSAF_example_file_1.nc"), vars)
ncvar_put(ncnew, var1, data1)
ncatt_put(ncnew, "lon", "standard_name", "longitude", prec = "text")
ncatt_put(ncnew, "lat", "standard_name", "latitude", prec = "text")
nc_close(ncnew)

t <- ncdim_def(name = "time", units = "hours since 1983-01-01 00:00:00",
 vals = time[2], unlim = TRUE)
ncnew <- nc_create(file.path(tempdir(),"CMSAF_example_file_2.nc"), vars)
ncvar_put(ncnew, var1, data2)
ncatt_put(ncnew, "lon", "standard_name", "longitude", prec = "text")
ncatt_put(ncnew, "lat", "standard_name", "latitude", prec = "text")
nc_close(ncnew)

## Divide the fields of both example CM SAF NetCDF files and write the
## result into one output file.
cmsaf.div(var1 = "SIS", var2 = "SIS", infile1 = file.path(tempdir(),
 "CMSAF_example_file_1.nc"), infile2 = file.path(tempdir(),
 "CMSAF_example_file_2.nc"), outfile = file.path(tempdir(),
 "CMSAF_example_file_div.nc"))

unlink(c(file.path(tempdir(),"CMSAF_example_file_1.nc"), 
 file.path(tempdir(),"CMSAF_example_file_2.nc"),
 file.path(tempdir(),"CMSAF_example_file_div.nc")))