NO_LEAP Calendar Option about vic HOT 7 CLOSED

I agree this would be nice feature.

@tbohn, do you have any thoughts on how this would work with the solar rad calc in mtclim? Is mtclim tied to the standard gregorian calendar?

I've slated this for 5.0 but could be included in 4.2.

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Actually, it wouldn't be too hard to implement. The solar rad stuff in mtclim_vic.c is done for a generic 366-day year (actually, 365-day, but with day 365 repeated). Communication between VIC and MTCLIM involves VIC telling MTCLIM which days of the year it wants. So, if you implement a NO_LEAP option in VIC proper, it wouldn't require messing with MTCLIM. At least I don't think so.

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This would be imminently helpful.

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@mrstu, do you think you might be able to take a crack at this?

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Yeah, it looks like a good opportunity to cut my teeth.

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@mrstu
It may be good take a look at the calendar implementations in the Python-netCDF4 package: https://code.google.com/p/netcdf4-python/source/browse/trunk/netcdftime.py. There's some extra stuff in there for conversion but it includes formulations for all the CF calendars. Standard and noleap are pretty straightforward but its always good to have a reference.

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closed via #188.

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