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Fernando Primo Forgioni
Fernando Primo Forgioni

Reputation: 35

Accumulated precipitation between 12UTC to 12UC of the other day

I have a .nc file that contains data every 6 hours of precipitation for 1 full year, my interest is to calculate the daily precipitation and compare with observed data, for this I must make them coincide temporally. To achieve this, the precipitation should accumulate between 12 utc of one day and 12 utc of the next day. Does anyone have a suggestion on how to achieve this with CDO?

Thank you!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 101

Answers (2)

Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson

Reputation: 3407

The answer Adrian Tompkins gives should work well. One additional point to note is that you can remove time steps in CDO. So, if your time starts at 0 UTC ands at 24 UTC, you do not want the first and last time step of Adrian's first answer, but you could modify it as follows:

cdo -timselmean,4 -delete,timestep=-1,-2,1,2 infile.nc outfile.nc

This will require a 2.x version of CDO.

Upvotes: 2

ClimateUnboxed
ClimateUnboxed

Reputation: 8087

Well if the first slice covers 12-18 UTC, then essentially you want to average the timeseries 4 slices at a time, (right?) in which case you can use this

cdo timselmean,4 infile.nc outfile.nc

If the timeseries starts instead at 00, you may need to remove the first two timeslices before you start (cdo seltimestep)

Another method is a bit more of a fudge, in that you can shift the series by 12 hours, and then use the day mean function. This would have the advantage of working for any frequency of data (i.e. you don't hardwire the factor "4" based on the data frequency)

cdo daymean -shifttime,-12hours infile.nc outfile.nc

Upvotes: 2

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