John-
On 3/25/11 4:54 PM, John Caron wrote:
> On 3/22/2011 6:53 AM, John Caron wrote:
>> Consider:
>>
>> int time(sample=1001);
>> :long_name = "Measurement time";
>> :standard_name = "time";
>> :units = "days since 1970-01-01";
>>
>> vs
>>
>> int time(sample=1001);
>> :long_name = "Measurement time";
>> :standard_name = "time";
>> :units = "3 days since 1970-01-01";
>>
>> values = 1, 2, 3, ...
>>
>> are these equivalent or does the second one mean every 3 days ? Is the
>> second one illegal ?
>
> Im am going to assume that the second form is illegal, that is, you may
> not have a number in front of the unit in a "time coordinate unit" (CF
> section 4.4)
I agree with Beno that it should be legal. GrADS gives their units in
terms of N (minutes, hours, days, months, years) from a reference time.
When I wrote the GrADS IOSP, I originally was using this syntax,
because then your time coordinate values are 0,1,2,..... However, 3mo
intervals came up with the problems that you have shown here, so I
converted everything to hours since the base date. But, if we had a
library that would compute 3mo since 2011-04-01 as 2011-07-01, I would
revert to that syntax because it is closer to the original GrADS definition.
Don
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Received on Sat Mar 26 2011 - 07:46:06 GMT
