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Extracts comprehensive metadata from an ERA5 NetCDF file including resolution, variables, units, dimensions, and global attributes.

Usage

get_era5_metadata(nc_file)

Arguments

nc_file

Character. Path to ERA5 NetCDF file.

Value

A list containing:

resolution

Spatial resolution in degrees (lon, lat)

extent

Bounding box (lon_min, lon_max, lat_min, lat_max)

dimensions

List of dimension information

variables

Tibble of variable metadata (name, long_name, units, dimensions)

global_attrs

List of global attributes

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
file <- "era5_data/monthly_single_levels_era5_202001.nc"
metadata <- get_era5_metadata(file)
print(metadata$resolution)
print(metadata$variables)
} # }