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)
} # }