Re: Calendar: basic question

From: Gwenaelle <philippon_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:04:10 -0500

Thanks!
Yes, I would prefer to make an interpolation instead of getting rid of
the 5 or 6 days at the end of the month.

What is the best way to do it?

On Jun 12, 2009, at 2:51 PM, Dave Allured wrote:

> Gwenaelle,
>
> You said "dataset" which implies that there is existing data
> associated with 365-day and 366-day calendar dates. If true, this
> is not a simple problem.
>
>
> How do you see mapping the data itself from one time system to
> another? Interpolation? Or simply discard 5 or 6 records each
> year, to make the number of days come out right?
>
> Or do you want to simply transform the time axis, so that you still
> have 365 or 366 time steps per year, but the time of day slowly
> rotates and you occasionally have one date with two records?
>
> Please clarify what the intention is.
>
> Dave Allured
> CU/CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center (CDC)
> http://cires.colorado.edu/science/centers/cdc/
> NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Climate Analysis Branch (CAB)
> http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/psd1/
>
> Gwenaelle wrote:
>> Hi ncl-talk,
>>
>> I have a daily dataset and I would like to convert the time from
>> (a) 365 days to 360 days
>> and (b) from 366 days to 360 days.
>>
>> Is there any ncl functions or documentation for this job?
>>
>> Thanks a lot!
>> Gwenaelle
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