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GeoCAT Applications is a community resource inspired by the NCL Applications page.
https://ncar.github.io/geocat-applications/
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Add more testing to `ncl/receipts/days_in_month.ipynb` to flesh out differences in "standard" and "gregorian" calendars #48

Open anissa111 opened 1 month ago

anissa111 commented 1 month ago

44 discovered some differences in the NCL and cftime gregorian and standard calendars.

We should add more receipts testing to fully understand the differences.

Depends on #44

kafitzgerald commented 3 weeks ago

I went down the rabbit hole a bit and I'm guessing it's because this (i.e. the interpretation of calendars for days_in_month) seems to all be custom in NCL: https://github.com/NCAR/ncl/blob/edd46f5426286146313b31bd6826e3d3c360c0dc/ni/src/lib/nfp/datesW.c#L760

And defined in ways that don't align with the CF conventions or UDUNITS.

kafitzgerald commented 3 weeks ago

This is also relevant: https://github.com/NCAR/ncl/blob/edd46f5426286146313b31bd6826e3d3c360c0dc/ni/src/lib/nfp/datesW.c#L1015

So effectively in NCL for this function anyway (and likely some others, but maybe not all) the "none", "standard", and "gregorian" calendars are all "proleptic_gregorian" calendars 🙃 .