The update to eccodes 2.35 introduced the support for step units in the mars language. This has a side effect that the step key may return a string of the value with a symbol for the unit of time. This PR introduces the lead_time dimension with coordinates encoded using timedelta objects in order to support the step units. Additionally, the ref_time is promoted to a dimension to accommodate use cases where multiple reference times are loaded from a data source.
Code changes:
dimension time renamed to lead_time and type changed from int to timedelta64[ns]
Purpose
The update to eccodes 2.35 introduced the support for step units in the mars language. This has a side effect that the step key may return a string of the value with a symbol for the unit of time. This PR introduces the
lead_timedimension with coordinates encoded using timedelta objects in order to support the step units. Additionally, theref_timeis promoted to a dimension to accommodate use cases where multiple reference times are loaded from a data source.Code changes:
timerenamed tolead_timeand type changed frominttotimedelta64[ns]ref_timewith typedatetime64[ns]