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leap year and mc files
Hi Ferret Users,
I have begun analysis on data produced by the NASCAR model which defines
every year as 365 days (so no leap years on 1980 etc). I converted the
grads data to netcdf via grads2nc and opened it with ferret. No suprise,
it assumed that 1980 was supposed to have leap years so the dates were off
by one. I remade the netcdf file using the
time:calendar_type = "noleap" ; in the header and opened the file via
ferret and still it assumed that 1980 was a leap year (putting the data
that should have been mar1 at mar0 and skewing all later data by 1 day).
Is there a good way to get ferret to recognize the data as being of the
type noleapyear?
I'm still using v5.22 but if I upgraded, I could define a new noleap axis
and regrid the data to it but this seems clunky and is less than
desireable. Any suggestions?
Second question: Once I figure out question 1, I want to open 17
annual data files as 1 via the mc descriptor files. I have .des files
that I use for standard calenders, but I'm confused as to what to put in
the s_start and s_end because of the lack of leap years. Is there a flag
I can somehow use to tell ferret that I want to use noleap year calenders?
If someone has an example of a noleap year .des file that would be great
as well.
Hopefully I've explained myself well enough to make my troubles clear.
Thanks as always for the help.
--Brent
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Brent A. McDaniel
Dept of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Ga. USA
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