Metadata-Version: 2.3
Name: climperiods
Version: 0.0.2
Summary: Calculate NOAA climate averaging periods
Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/MutaharChalmers/climperiods
Author-email: Mutahar Chalmers <mutahar.chalmers@gmail.com>
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License-File: LICENSE
Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering
Requires-Python: >=3.8
Requires-Dist: pandas>=1.0
Description-Content-Type: text/markdown

# climperiods
Minimal function to calculate climate averaging periods according to the NOAA CPC standard approach such that each five-year period in the historical record has its own 30-year average centered on the first year in the period. For example, the years 1951 to 1955 are compared to the 1936-1965 average, while the years 1956-1960 are compared to 1941-1970. For years where the nominal period is partly in the future, we use the most recently calculated climatology, which, for now, is the 1991-2020 average. The climatology will be updated every five years.

For more details see https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/watching-el-ni%C3%B1o-and-la-ni%C3%B1a-noaa-adapts-global-warming