Jon,
1) I'd use 'days'. It is a valid standard name apart from the 'days
since date' formalism. It's not perfect, but it's legal. You could,
alternatively, request a new standard name.
2) Use a time_bounds variable. I would tend to set the time to be July 1
at midnight for each year, and set the bounds for each year to Jan 1 of
that year and Jan 1 of the next year.
Grace and peace,
Jim
On 3/14/17 10:43 AM, Jon Blower wrote:
Hi all,
We need to structure a NetCDF file that will hold a variable that represents
the day of the year on which an event happened (integers from 0 to 366). This
value is recorded every year for a number of years. I have a couple of
questions about how best to do this:
1. What is the best standard name to use for the day of the year? I didn’t find
anything in the standard name table, although I might have missed it.
2. What would be the best way to define the time axis? Each point along the
axis would represent a whole year, rather than an instant in time. I could
simply pick an arbitrary instant (e.g. midnight on 1st Jan) to represent the
year, but is there a better way?
Thanks in advance for any help!
Jon
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