Method to obtain annually summed variables

[Emilio Mayorga <emiliom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I wrote about 2 months ago to ask for help in writing a script that would
create an annually summed variable out of monthly data. Steve Hankin
helped me on this, but I still couldn't solve it -- I kept on losing the
first or last years. I am writing now to present the commands where I've
implemented this. This is different from a script presented in the Ferret
Manual, where the variable is *written* to a netcdf file. In my opinion,
creating a variable gives more flexibility.

Say you have a variable "PPT" of monthly values, defined from 1983 to
1989. The trick is that the first point in the T definition must be
*exactly* the midpoint in the year; otherwise the first or the last years
are lost. When I use T=30-jun-1983, the first year is lost; and with
T=1-jul-1983, the last year is lost. Then:


DEFINE AXIS/T="30-jun-1983:17:00":"1-jun-1989":1/UNITS=year tannual
LET PPT_YR = PPT[GT=tannual@SUM]


I hope someone finds this useful. And thanks, Steve.

Emilio Mayorga
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