yyyyddd_to_yyyymmdd

Given concatenated year and day-of-year (yyyyddd) create a one-dimensional array containing concatenated year, month and day-of-month (yyyymmdd) values.

Prototype

load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/contributed.ncl"  ; This library is automatically loaded
                                                             ; from NCL V6.2.0 onward.
                                                             ; No need for user to explicitly load.

	function yyyyddd_to_yyyymmdd (
		yyyyddd [*] : integer   
	)

Return value

A one dimensional array of type integer containing values of the form yyyymmdd (year-month-day_of_month).

Description

The return integer is constructed via

[ yyyy*10000 + mm*100 + dd ]

See Also

List of "date" and "calendar" functions

Examples

The following require that contributed.ncl be loaded prior to invoking the function.

       load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/contributed.ncl"

Example 1

               ; all have the form 'yyyyddd'
      yearday  = (/ 2003001, 2003032, 2003060 \
                  , 2004061, 2004366          \    ; leap year 
                  , 2005060, 2005365/)
      yyyymmdd = yyyyddd_to_yyyymmdd( yearday  )
      print(yearday+"   "+yyyymmdd) 

        yearday   
        yyyyddd   yyyymmdd
(0)     2003001   20030101
(1)	2003032   20030201
(2)	2003060   20030301
(3)	2004061   20040301
(4)	2004366   20041231
(5)	2005060   20050301
(6)	2005365   20051231