source: XIOS/trunk/src/duration.hpp @ 576

Last change on this file since 576 was 550, checked in by rlacroix, 9 years ago

Add a new user defined calendar type.

A new calendar type "user_defined" is now available. This allows the users to create a custom calendar that we can configured to be suitable for planets other than the Earth.

An user defined calendar is always defined by two mandatory attributes:

  • day_length: the duration of a day, in seconds
  • and either:
    • month_length: an array containing the duration of each month, in days (the number of elements in the array is the number of months in a year)
    • or year_length: the duration of a year, in seconds (in that case, the calendar does not have months).

If the calendar has months (i.e. month_length attribute is set) and only in that case, it is possible to define leap years in order to compensate for the duration of an astronomical year not being a multiple of the day length. The leap years are defined by two mandatory attributes:

  • leap_year_month: the month to which the extra day will be added in case of leap year, expressed as an integer number in the range [1, numberOfMonths]
  • and leap_year_drift: the fraction of a day representing the yearly drift between the calendar year and the astronomical year, expressed as a real number in the range [0, 1).

Optionally, one can define the leap_year_drift_offset attribute to set the original drift at the beginning of the time origin's year, again expressed as a real number in the range [0, 1). If leap_year_drift_offset + leap_year_drift is greater or equal to 1, then the first year will be a leap year.

For example, the following configuration creates a Gregorian-like calendar:

<calendar type="user_defined" start_date="2012-03-01 15:00:00" time_origin="2012-02-28 15:00:00 + 1d" day_length="86400" month_lengths="(1, 12) [31 28 31 30 31 30 31 31 30 31 30 31]" leap_year_month="2" leap_year_drift="0.25" leap_year_drift_offset="0.75" />

Note that dates attributes must be written differently in the configuration file when using an user defined calendar without months:

  • if the year length is greater than the day length, the input format is year-day hh:min:sec instead of year-month-day hh:min:sec
  • if the day length is greater or equal to the year length, the input format is year hh:min:sec.

In all cases, it is still possible to use the date + duration notation to build a date (with both the date and duration parts being optional).

The Fortran interface has been updated accordingly so that xios_define_calendar can accept the new attributes necessary to define custom calendars.
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    Software name : XIOS (Xml I/O Server)
    http://forge.ipsl.jussieu.fr/ioserver
    Creation date : January 2009
    Licence : CeCCIL version2
    see license file in root directory : Licence_CeCILL_V2-en.txt
    or http://www.cecill.info/licences/Licence_CeCILL_V2-en.html
    Holder : CEA/LSCE (Laboratoire des Sciences du CLimat et de l'Environnement)
    CNRS/IPSL (Institut Pierre Simon Laplace)
    Project Manager : Yann Meurdesoif
    yann.meurdesoif@cea.fr
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1#ifndef __XMLIO_CDuration__
2#define __XMLIO_CDuration__
3
4/// xios headers ///
5#include "xmlioserver_spl.hpp"
6#include "exception.hpp"
7
8namespace xios
9{
10      /// ////////////////////// Déclarations ////////////////////// ///
11      typedef long long int Time;
12      class CCalendar;
13
14      ///---------------------------------------------------------------
15
16      struct CDuration
17      {
18         public: /* static */
19            static CDuration FromString(const StdString& str);
20
21         public:
22            /// Opérateurs ///
23            CDuration& operator=(const CDuration& duration);
24
25            friend StdOStream& operator<<(StdOStream& out, const CDuration& duration);
26            friend StdIStream& operator>>(StdIStream& in , CDuration& duration);
27
28            /// Test ///
29            bool isNone(void) const;
30
31            /// Traitement ///
32            CDuration& resolve(const CCalendar& calendar, bool noNegativeTime = false);
33            CDuration& solveTimeStep(const CCalendar& c);
34            /// Autres ///
35            StdString toString(void) const;
36
37            /// Propriétés publiques ///
38            double year, month, day, hour, minute, second, timestep;
39      };
40
41      ///---------------------------------------------------------------
42
43      const extern CDuration Year, Month,  Week,   Day,
44                             Hour, Minute, Second, TimeStep, NoneDu;
45} // namespace xios
46
47#endif // __XMLIO_CDuration__
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