360 day calendar!

[Ajaya Mohan R. S]

> On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 14:02 -0600, Dave Allured wrote:
> I do hope that the 360_day_calendar option can be incorporated into
> a future Grads release.  This issue keeps coming up.


In the context of future builds, it would be nice to have an option for
the user to define his/her own calendar. For eg:, many times one deals
with boreal summer (June-Sept) data or boreal winter (Dec-Jan) data for
several years. For boreal summer, a 122 day calendar definition would
help the use of correct calendar days in analysis/display.

warm regards,
Ajaya Mohan


> Maisa,
>
> You can do this by making a patch to Grads source code, then
> recompile.  Takashi Kagimoto of Frontier Research Center for Global
> Change/JAMSTEC posted this patch on 2006-sep-7 to this list.  The
> subject line was "Daily Data in Grads".  Please check the archives
> for that date.  HTH.
>
> http://list.cineca.it/archives/gradsusr.html
>
> I do hope that the 360_day_calendar option can be incorporated into
> a future Grads release.  This issue keeps coming up.
>
> --Dave A.
> CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center (CDC)
> NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Climate Diagnostics Branch (CDB)
> http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/
>
> Maisa Rojas Corradi wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I am trying to work in grads with model output that uses a 360 day
> > calendar. I only found an option for 365 day calendar. Is there a way to
> > handle this in grads? Otherwise one can't trust any time setting and one
> > can get quite wrong results if not careful!!!!
> >
> > thanks,
> > Maisa
> >
> >
> > --
> > Maisa Rojas Corradi
> > Departamento de Geofisica
> > Universidad de Chile
> > Blanco Encalada 2002
> > Tel: 978 43 00