Read SMAP sea surface salinity data

SMAP surface salinity data read from files managed by salfiles.

readsal(
  date,
  time.resolution = c("daily"),
  xylim = NULL,
  lon180 = TRUE,
  varname = c("sss_smap", "nobs", "sss_ref", "gland", "gice", "surtep"),
  setNA = TRUE,
  latest = TRUE,
  returnfiles = FALSE,
  ...,
  inputfiles = NULL
)

Arguments

date

date or dates of data to read,

time.resolution

time resoution data to read, daily or monthly

xylim

spatial extents to crop from source data, can be anything accepted by extent, see Details

lon180

defaults to TRUE, to "rotate" Pacific view 0, 360 data to Atlantic view -180, 180

varname

variable to return from the data files, default is "sss_smap", also available is "nobs", "sss_ref", "gland", "gice", "surtep"

setNA

mask out land values (only applies to monthly time.resolution)

latest

if TRUE (and date not supplied) return the latest time available

returnfiles

ignore options and just return the file names and dates

...

Arguments passed on to raadtools

inputfiles

input the files data base to speed up initialization

readall

FALSE by default

Value

raster object