The original spatial CIMIS program organized hourly data by the current hour, so that there was a change in the hour at daylight savings time changes. This resulted in some small errors in the background determination for about a week after the changes. In the new system, we borrowed from a method of Rick Synder in some previous ET work, so stick with one timezone regardless of the day of year. This simplifies the processing. Unfortunately, we used Rick's choice of PST. After the November voting, and rethinking this, I think we should probably change this to PDT. It's more of the year, and may be the only time used soon. This task would update the code to PDT, and change the current data to the new hourly scheme.
The original spatial CIMIS program organized hourly data by the current hour, so that there was a change in the hour at daylight savings time changes. This resulted in some small errors in the background determination for about a week after the changes. In the new system, we borrowed from a method of Rick Synder in some previous ET work, so stick with one timezone regardless of the day of year. This simplifies the processing. Unfortunately, we used Rick's choice of PST. After the November voting, and rethinking this, I think we should probably change this to PDT. It's more of the year, and may be the only time used soon. This task would update the code to PDT, and change the current data to the new hourly scheme.