Re: Strange time axis inconsistencies, and more

[Steve Hankin <hankin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Gary,

Good questions, and ones which have come up in the past, as well.

There are a number of complicating factors in the solutions. Lets take
this discussion off-line to see if we can arrive at some solutions that
cover as many bases as possible.

If others would like to join the discussion, please contact me at my
email address, above.

	- steve

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Gary Strand wrote:
> 
> One last thing about Time - is it possible for ferret to understand a year of
> precisely 365 days, no leap years at all, without the calendar slipping? Our
> model has no leap years - and I've gotten around this by "remapping" the model
> dates into leap years by making the year 365.2425 days long. Anyway, udunits
> has a unit called "common_year"; would it be possible to define a time axis
> with
> 
> ``time:units = "common_years since 0001-01-01" ;''
> 
> and have it work properly?
> 
> A couple other things - why does ferret sometimes promote "float" to "double"
> when one creates a new netCDF file? This makes it difficult to read the new
> netCDF file with (say) a Fortran90 program because while the dimension is de-
> fined to be double, the data themselves are not.
> 
> Lastly, can one have a dashed/dotted *and* colored line?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --
> Gary Strand
> strandwg@ucar.edu                         http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/ccr/strandwg

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