Time period and range reported wrongly?

[uwefladrich]

While checking cmorised CMIP6 data from EC-Earth, I noticed that inconsistent time ranges are reported in the check_logs/Period/*.range and corresponding *.period files, e.g.

# Time intervals of atomic variables.

Frequency: gr, number of variables: 6
tas_Amon_EC-Earth3-Veg_amip_r1i1p1f1_gr        1979-01-01T00:00:00 - 2017-12-01T00:00:00 <--
tas_day_EC-Earth3-Veg_amip_r1i1p1f1_gr         1979-01-01T00:00:00 - 2017-12-31T00:00:00    

and

--- # Time intervals of atomic variables.

- frequency: gr
  number_of_variables: 6
  - variable: tas_Amon_EC-Earth3-Veg_amip_r1i1p1f1_gr
    begin: 1979-01-01T00:00:00
    end: 2017-12-01T00:00:00
    status: FAIL:E
  - variable: tas_day_EC-Earth3-Veg_amip_r1i1p1f1_gr
    begin: 1979-01-01T00:00:00
    end: 2017-12-31T00:00:00
    status: PASS

It looks like the last time step is missing for all variables, which means that monthly files end one month before the end of the time period while daily files are one day short. Hence, the time periods do not match.

[uwefladrich]

Checking the actual files that should be considered for the time period, I made sure they end at 2018-01-01T00:00:00 and that the time bounds match.

ncdump -v time_bnds [...]/tas_Amon_EC-Earth3-Veg_amip_r1i1p1f1_gr_201701-201712.nc
[...]
 time_bnds =
  [...]
  14214, 14245 ;

and

ncdump -v time_bnds [...]/tas_day_EC-Earth3-Veg_amip_r1i1p1f1_gr_20170101-20171231.nc
[...]
 time_bnds =
  [...]
  14244, 14245 ;

where 1979-01-01 00:00:00 (the reference date) plus 14245 days is 2018-01-01 00:00:00

[uwefladrich]

Could it be related to #10 ?

[uwefladrich]

Seems to be solved with recent Github version of qa-dkrz. Closing.