Re: calendar types

[Ansley Manke <ansley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Elizabeth,
The ability to put the calendar type in the descriptor file will be in
the next version of Ferret, version 5.41.  The format will be
D_CALTYPE  =

for example:

 $BACKGROUND_RECORD
  D_EXPNUM             = '0000',
  D_MODNUM             = '  00',
  D_TITLE              = 'Model Output, Daily Averages',
  D_T0TIME             = '30-DEC-0000 00:00:00',
  D_TIME_UNIT          = 3600.,
  D_TIME_MODULO        = .FALSE.,
  D_CALTYPE            = 'NOLEAP',
 $END

In the meantime, perhaps you can define the axis in Ferret with the
correct calendar type, and regrid to that axis.

Ansley Manke

Elizabeth Dobbins wrote:

> Hi;
>
> I've got a netCDF file in which time is a dimension, but not a variable.
> I've been using descriptor files to give the data a proper time axis. Now
> I want to use one of the newly added calendar types (thanks for these, by
> the way), but since the file doesn't have a time variable, I can't use
> time:calendar_type = "noleap" ; within the file.  Can I add it somehow to
> the descriptor file?  What's the syntax for that?  Or do I need to define
> a new axis within ferret after I load the data?
>
> Thanks
>
> *********************
> Elizabeth L. Dobbins
> Research Scientist
> JISAO/PMEL
> phone: (206) 526-4581
>
> "Various forms of jiggery-pokery were used to suit
> horses to courses."  -- Michael Burleigh

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Ansley Manke  Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory  Seattle WA  (206)526-6246