Merge a new met variable from an external file (e.g. CO2) into existing met files

Currently modifies the files IN PLACE rather than creating a new copy of the files an a new DB record. Currently unit and name checking only implemented for CO2. Currently does not yet support merge data that has lat/lon New variable only has time dimension and thus MIGHT break downstream code....

Usage

merge_met_variable(
  in.path,
  in.prefix,
  start_date,
  end_date,
  merge.file,
  overwrite = FALSE,
  verbose = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

in.path

path to original data

in.prefix

prefix of original data

start_date, end_date

date (or character in a standard date format). Only year component is used.

merge.file

path of file to be merged in

overwrite

logical: replace output file if it already exists?

verbose

logical: should ncdf4 functions print debugging information as they run?

...

other arguments, currently ignored

Value

Currently nothing. TODO: Return a data frame summarizing the merged files.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
in.path    <- "~/paleon/PalEONregional_CF_site_1-24047/"
in.prefix  <- ""
outfolder  <- "~/paleon/metTest/"
merge.file <- "~/paleon/paleon_monthly_co2.nc"
start_date <- "0850-01-01"
end_date   <- "2010-12-31"
overwrite  <- FALSE
verbose    <- TRUE

merge_met_variable(in.path,in.prefix,start_date,end_date,merge.file,overwrite,verbose)
PEcAn.DALEC::met2model.DALEC(in.path,in.prefix,outfolder,start_date,end_date)
} # }