Sea_floor_depth_below_sea_surface seems very appropriate when
the water depth is measured from the surface.
Some communities need to distinguish this measurement from one
made from the sea floor. Shipboard water depth measurements in the
open ocean generally ignore tides and other variations in
Hi Jon
4) Finally on practical note: I seem to remember that someone has
implemented the 360-day calendar using the Java library joda-time? Is
this code available for re-use?
I don't know about joda-time, but there is a python implementation in
the CDMS cdtime module:
http://esg.llnl.gov/
Hi Jon
> 1) In this system, how long is a day in milliseconds? Is it the normal
> 24*60*60*1000?
Yes.
> Or is it somehow scaled so that a year of 360 days has
> the same number of milliseconds as an "average" Gregorian year?
No.
> 2) Is there any way of translating (even roughly) between 360-d
Hi all,
I'm trying to understand how to handle some climate data with a 360-day
calendar. As I understand it
(http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/documents/cf-conventions/1.4/cf-conventions.ht
ml#calendar), this calendar uses 12-month years with exactly 30 days
each. I have a few questions:
1) In this sys
