[ncl-talk] yyyymmdd in month_to_annual_weighted?

[Dennis Shea]

FYI: NCL 6.2.1 [primarily a bug fix version] will be released in August
2014. It includes the bug fix mentioned.

See:

http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/future_release.shtml


On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Maria Gehne - NOAA Affiliate <
maria.gehne at noaa.gov> wrote:

> I ran into a similar issue a while ago. My fix would be to copy the part
> of contributed.ncl that computes month_to_annual_weighted and save it as a
> separate ncl script with a slightly different name. I changed all the
> references to yyyymmdd in that script to yyyymm and it works. You just need
> to load the new script at the beginning of the ncl script that
> uses month_to_annual_weighted_new (or whatever you decide to call it).
>
> Maria
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Dennis Shea <shea at ucar.edu> wrote:
>
>> That is a bug: See
>>
>>    http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/future_release.shtml
>>
>> This will be fixed in 6.2.1 [sometime-in-August release]
>> You will be sent a 'fix' offline.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 10:25 AM, <lsmith at ucar.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi gang,
>>> I'm trying to use month_to_annual_weighted
>>> and I need more info about what the first field in the function is
>>> supposed to be.
>>> I created dates of the type YYYYMM for my data, but I'm getting the
>>> error:
>>> fatal:Variable (yyyymmdd) is undefined
>>> fatal:["Execute.c":8567]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 9783
>>> in file $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/contributed.ncl
>>>
>>> Where does dd come into it?  The webpage doesn't say anything about days:
>>>
>>> https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Contributed/month_to_annual_weighted.shtml
>>> Do my dates need some particular metadata?
>>> Or are they supposed to be of the form YYYYMMDD?
>>> Thanks for any suggestions,
>>> -Lesley L. Smith
>>>
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